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Kerry Donovan, Executive Editor

Executive Editor Kerry Donovan joined Berkley in 2004. She acquires upmarket commercial fiction, historical fiction, and romance. Recent and forthcoming titles include Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West, You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley, The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin, and Well Met by Jen DeLuca.

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Tracy Bernstein, Executive Editor

Tracy Bernstein is Executive Editor at Berkley. She began her career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before finding her natural habitat at more commercial publishers like Kensington and Pocket Books. She joined New American Library in 2002 and, despite a fear of driving, merged smoothly into the Berkley lane. In addition to overseeing the Signet Classics line and the extensive Berkley backlist, she acquires and edits fiction, memoir, and true crime. The New York Times-bestselling authors she has worked with include Jen Lancaster, Montel Williams and Al Roker.

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Amanda Bergeron, Vice President, Editorial Director

Executive Editor Amanda Bergeron joined Berkley in October 2016. She acquires upmarket commercial women’s fiction—both historical and contemporary—book club fiction, and psychological suspense. Some recent and upcoming titles include Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray, The Au Pair by Emma Rous, and Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen.

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Cindy Hwang, Vice President, Editorial Director

Cindy Hwang is Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley. She joined Berkley in 1994 and has acquired and worked with a roster of bestselling authors including Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sylvia Day, Christine Feehan, Maya Banks, Nalini Singh, Karen White and Jasmine Guillory. Cindy was heavily involved in growing Sensation into a leading romance imprint, and in the development of the digital imprint InterMix.

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Tom Colgan, Vice President, Editorial Director

Tom Colgan is the Vice President, Editorial Director at Berkley. He started his career at Berkley in 1985. In those days he worked on everything from the novelization of the movie ET: The Extraterrestrial to westerns. He then spent six years at Avon/Morrow and returned to Berkley as an Executive Editor in 1996. He has worked with such bestselling authors as Ed McBain, Janet Evanovich, Lee Child, and Tom Clancy.

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Claire Zion, Senior Vice President, Editor in Chief

Claire Zion became Vice President, Editor in Chief at Berkley in July 2015. She joined Penguin in 2002 as the Editorial Director of New American Library and was appointed Vice President in 2009. Prior to joining NAL, she was the Editorial Director at iPublish.com, the early ebook company launched by AOL/Time Warner; the Editorial Director of mass market titles at Grand Central (then Warner Books); and an Editor at Pocket Books. She started her career right out of college at New American Library.

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Craig Burke, Vice President, Associate Publisher

Craig Burke is the Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity, and Special Projects Director of Berkley. He oversees publicity campaigns for the entire Berkley list and has worked with many bestselling authors, including Nora Roberts, J.R. Ward, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jen Lancaster, A. Scott Berg, and Karen White, among others. He oversaw the publicity campaigns for a number of high-profile, bestselling books, including Ricky Martin’s Me, Joan Rivers’s I Hate Everyone…Starting with Me, and True Love by Jennifer Lopez.

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Jeanne-Marie Hudson, Vice President, Deputy Publisher

Jeanne-Marie Hudson is the Vice President, Associate Publisher, Director of Marketing of Berkley. Prior to joining Berkley, she was Senior Director of Marketing Communications & Audience Development at St. Martin’s Press, where she worked with bestselling authors Kristin Hannah, Emily Giffin, Louise Penny, Lisa Scottoline, Mary Kay Andrews, Janet Evanovich, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Augusten Burroughs, among others.

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Berkley

An industry leader in commercial and genre fiction, Berkley has a rich tradition of discovering new talent, defining emerging trends, and building authors and series into global franchises. With Berkley’s dedicated focus and guidance many bestselling authors have grown into international brand names, including Nora Roberts, William Gibson, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jim Butcher, and Charlaine Harris. We’re proud to publish Jasmine Guillory, Jayne Ann Krentz, Karen White, Patricia Briggs, Christine Feehan, Mark Greaney, Susan Meissner, Kristan Higgins, and Chanel Cleeton, among others.

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Benjamin Lee, Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher, Paperbacks & Backlist

Ben Lee joined Dutton, Putnam, and Berkley as Vice President, Associate Publisher of paperbacks in March 2015. He oversees the paperback conversion program for all of Dutton and Putnam’s books. Prior to joining Dutton, Putnam, and Berkley, Ben was most recently VP, Associate Publisher of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster, overseeing campaigns for many New York Times bestselling authors including Brad Thor, Jennifer Weiner, Vince Flynn, Theresa Caputo, Rachael Ray and Buddy Valastro.

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