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Lindsay Sagnette, Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
Lindsay Sagnette joined Putnam in 2024. Prior to that she worked at Atria, where she helped the imprint achieve unprecedented commercial success, including overseeing the relaunch of Washington Square Press, and editing bestselling authors such as Rebecca Serle, Jamie Ford, Lisa Jewell, Patti Callahan Henry, and Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl. She also served…
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Alison Fairbrother, Associate Editor
Alison Fairbrother edits and acquires fiction, memoir, and select narrative nonfiction. She has worked with New York Times bestselling and award winning authors, including Kristen Arnett, Aja Gabel, Anna Hogeland, R.O. Kwon, and Jenny Xie. Alison’s own debut novel, The Catch, was published by Random House in 2022.
Read MoreAnna Paustenbach, Executive Editor
Executive Editor Anna Paustenbach joined Avery in 2024. She was previously Executive Editor at HarperOne, where she published #1 New York Times bestsellers and national bestsellers including The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy, You Were Born for This by Chani Nicholas, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith, Do Hard Things by Steve Magness, Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, and…
Read MoreTarini Sipahimalani, Assistant Editor
Tarini Sipahimalani joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires bold, voice-driven upmarket fiction. She’s drawn to emotionally resonant and psychologically provocative stories that speak to the universalities of the human experience, excavate cultural truths, and offer an incisive reflection of the world by visceral way of mind. She loves binge-reads that don’t shy away from characters’…
Read MoreAranya Jain, Assistant Editor
Aranya Jain joined Putnam in 2021 and acquires high-concept fiction, especially contemporary fantasy geared toward a commercial audience. She’s easily lured by a beguiling voice or an uncanny premise, something that unnerves, inspires whimsy, or expands our curiosity about the scope of the universe. Grounded fantasy, upmarket horror, mainstream science fiction, and literary speculative fiction…
Read MoreAshley Di Dio, Associate Editor
Ashley Di Dio joined Putnam in 2020 and publishes upmarket book club fiction across multiple genres that focuses on resilient characters, diverse perspectives, and asks big moral questions. Her nonfiction leans narrative in nature and includes memoir, self-help, psychology, and select history with a pop culture, millennial/gen-z, or feminist bent. Ashley has worked with New…
Read MoreMegan McCormack, Editor
Megan is interested in books on infrastructure, technology, and systemic societal issues—books that challenge us to reexamine aspects of everyday life we may take for granted. She is also particularly keen to find provocative takes on feminism, gender, and relationships. Her forthcoming books with Thesis include a polemic from the creators of The War on Cars podcast,…
Read MoreAlex Wolfe, Associate Editor
Alex Wolfe is an associate editor who works on picture books, middle grade, graphic novels, and everything in between. She is particularly passionate about fiction that emphasizes humor, strong female characters, distinctive artwork, joyful stories, and anything weird, whimsical, and absurd! When not editing, you can usually find her listening to a comedy podcast, watching…
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