Margot Stamas, Associate Publisher and Director of Publicity and Marketing

Margot Stamas Portrait

Margot Stamas joined Portfolio in 2012. As the Associate Publisher and Director of Publicity and Marketing, Margot is responsible for overseeing the promotional strategy across the Portfolio, Sentinel, and Optimism lists. She has led bestselling campaigns for Sophia Amoruso’s #GIRLBOSS, Marie Forleo’s Everything Is Figureoutable, Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism, Emily Chang’s Brotopia, Gregory Zuckerman’s The Man Who Solved the Market, and more.

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Emily Wunderlich, Senior Editor

Emily Wunderlich joined Viking in 2015. She acquires nonfiction in a range of categories, with a focus on big idea, inspiration, and business; narrative nonfiction and journalism; and literary nonfiction. She is particularly drawn to strong voices and fresh takes that recast our understanding of the world around us; she gravitates toward books speaking on women’s issues and social justice, and is focused on publishing a multitude of underrepresented voices, perspectives, and experiences.

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Lindsey Schwoeri, Senior Editor

Lindsey Schwoeri, senior editor, acquires literary fiction, narrative nonfiction and memoir. She loves fiction that is transporting, tense and beautifully written; in both fiction and nonfiction, she is drawn to books with the power to both inform and move us.

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Laura Tisdel, Executive Editor

Laura Tisdel began her career as a publicist and then editor at Viking, and returned as an executive editor in 2015 after several years as an editor at Little, Brown and Company. She acquires literary fiction and is drawn to voice-driven stories and novels that communicate a strong sense of place or deep connection to an irresistible cast of characters. She also acquires narrative nonfiction and memoirs, and is particularly eager to find perspectives that provide a revealing, deep-dive look at undiscovered or overlooked subjects, books that deal with issues important to women and parents, and stories with a sense of humor.

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Allison Lorentzen, Executive Editor

Allison Lorentzen is an executive editor who joined Viking in 2012. She edits a range of literary and upmarket fiction and is often drawn to novels with memorable voices, a sense of humor, and settings that span the globe.

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Paul Slovak, Vice President and Executive Editor

Executive Editor Paul Slovak edits a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including memoir, cultural history, and natural history. In fiction, he is interested in writers who have exuberant, distinctive voices and the ability to find new ways of telling stories and fresh and surprising ways of imagining characters.

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Lindsay Prevette, Director of Publicity

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Lindsay Prevette joined the Viking publicity department in 2006 and was named director of publicity in 2015. She has orchestrated publicity campaigns for numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy; Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; and The Signature of All Things; Lev Grossman’s The Magicians Trilogy; Give and Take by Adam Grant; Anticancer by David Servan-Schreiber; and Bettyville by George Hodgman. Before joining Viking, she worked in publicity at Ballantine.

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Viking Books – Awards

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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as quality translations by award-winning translators.

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