Ruoxi Chen, Executive Editor

Ruoxi Chen joined Putnam in 2024 and acquires genre-bending crossover speculative fiction for a general audience. She’s drawn to voice-driven, character-forward books that effortlessly slip between genres, worlds, and boundaries, and is looking for deeply specific stories with broad commercial potential that will find their exact reader regardless of what BISAC they live under.  

Among her editorial acquisitions are Some Desperate Glory, winner of the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Novel; the USA Today bestselling Swordcrossed; Riot Baby, winner of the World Fantasy Award; Flowers for the Sea, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award; and The Chosen and the Beautiful, a celebrated queer, Asian American reimagining of The Great Gatsby. She’s worked with award-winning, bestselling authors including Tochi Onyebuchi, S. L. Huang, Kerstin Hall, Sarah Gailey, Nghi Vo, Emily Tesh, and Freya Marske, among others. Prior to Putnam, she was at Macmillan/Tor Publishing Group, and she has been recognized for her editorial work with two Hugo Awards for Best Editor, Long Form and the top honor for the Publishers Weekly Star Watch program.