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Nina von Moltke, President and Director of Strategic Development at Penguin Random House, is leaving the company in May. In other PRH news Marissa Secreto joins Penguin Random House Audio as Marketing Associate. At Random House Children’s, Isabelle Snyder joins as Junior Designer, Brand and Licensed.
At HarperCollins, SVP, International Sales David Wolfson has retired and SVP, Sales and Associate Publisher for the children’s division Andrea Pappenheimer has departed the company.
Publisher Christine Carswell will retire from Chronicle in April.
Chiwoniso Kaitano joins MacDowell as Executive Director, succeeding Interim Director Philip Himberg. Most recently she was Executive Director of global NGO Girl Be Heard.
Nathan Rostron joins ZE Books as Interim Publishing and Marketing Director. He was most recently Editorial and Marketing Director at Restless Books.
At Longleaf Services, Chris Granville joins as Director of Editorial, Design, and Production Services. He was formerly Production Manager at Duke University Press.
At Humanoids, Holly Aitchison, previously Consumer Marketing Manager at Oni Press, joins as Director of Sales. Esther Kim, previously Marketing Manager at BOOM! Studios, joins as Director of Marketing.
Mark Haber, author and formerly Operations Manager at Brazos Bookstore, joins Coffee House Press as Director of Marketing.
Sarah Rucker joins Usborne Books, which is now distributed in the US by HarperCollins, as Sales Director. Rucker was most recently Sales Director at Gibbs Smith.
At Oxford University Press, Zachary Haynes has left his position as Director of Global Business Development.
Sarah Brody joins Sourcebooks as Associate Art Director. Most recently she was Senior Designer at Penguin Random House. Jackie Olmos joins as Associate National Accounts Manager. Jay Farahani joins as PHP Web Developer.
Associate Art Director Matt Roeser has left Candlewick Press and can be contacted at roeser.matt@gmail.com.
Meg Reid will become Executive Director and Publisher at Hub City Writers Project on April 1. She was previously Director of Hub City Press.
At the Strand Book Store, Paul Colarusso, lately Communications Director at Aperture Foundation, joins as Communications Director.
Tattered Cover Book Store CEO Kwame Spearman is taking a leave of absence in order to focus on his mayoral campaign. CFO Margie Kennan will assume his day-to-day responsibilities.
In agency news…Lauren Spieller joins Folio Literary Management as Literary Agent; she was previously Literary Agent at Triada US. Elise Howard, Founding Publisher of Algonquin Young Readers, joins DeFiore and Company as Agent. At Triangle House Literary, Noah Grey Rosenzweig, current Editorial Fellow for Roxane Gay, joins as Literary Agent. Ashley Reisinger joins Triada US as Assistant Literary Agent.
At The Baffler, Matthew Shen Goodman has been named Editor-in-Chief.
Janice Stillman is retiring as Editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, having served in that position since 2000. A search for the new, fourteenth editor is underway.
At Weldon Owen, Edward Ash-Milby joins as Executive Editor. He was a buyer at Barnes & Noble for almost thirty years.
In addition to the closing of Catapult’s magazine and writing class programming and consequent layoffs, there are departures on the book publishing side: Associate Editor Summer Farrah, Counterpoint Assistant Director of Publicity Sarah Jean Grimm, and Counterpoint/Catapult/Soft Skull Publicity Manager Alisha Gorder.
Laura Lutz joins Hachette Book Group as Children’s School & Library Marketing Manager. She was previously a school librarian. Kelly Moran joins Little, Brown Children’s as Senior Publicist; most recently she was Public Relations Associate at Villanova University. At Orbit, Stephanie Lippitt Clark, lately Brand Manager, Books for Riot Games, joins as Editor. Joanne Redmond, lately Associate Publicist at Columbia University Press, joins Basic Books as Publicist. At Public Affairs, Kimberly Meilun joins as Associate Editor. Most recently she was Assistant Editor at Portfolio.
At Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Alexandra Quill joins as Senior Marketing Manager, School and Library, moving over from Macmillan’s academic division. At Macmillan, Ben Allen joins St. Martin’s Press as Managing Editor; he was previously Associate Managing Editor at Mulholland and Voracious. Travis Porteous joins as Senior Financial Analyst and Randi Moore joins as Associate General Counsel. Jocelyn O’Dowd, formerly Production Manager at Penguin Random House, joins as Senior Production Manager. Heather Niver joins as Associate Managing Editor. At Picador, Sarah Haeckel joins as Publicist; she moves over from her former position as Associate Publicist at St. Martin’s.
Lizzi Middleman joins Algonquin Books as Senior Marketing Manager. She was previously Senior Manager, Marketing & Sales Promotion at Gibbs Smith.
At DAW Books, Kayleigh Webb joins as Senior Publicist. Previously she was Senior Publicist and Marketer at Saga Press.
Peter Behravesh, formerly Editor at Seven Seas Entertainment, joins Mandala Earth as Senior Editor. Colleen Lindsay has left her position as Senior Marketing and Publicity Strategist at Insight Editions.
At Simon & Schuster, Ian Straus joins as Editor on March 13. He was previously at Little, Brown, where he helped launch the Spark imprint. Zakiya Jamal joins Atria as Marketing Manager; she worked previously as Senior Manager of Social Media for Scholastic.
At Scholastic, MacKenzie Kurtner joins as Proprietary Planning, Sales Planning. She was previously Custom Publishing Coordinator at Penguin Random House. Additionally, Daisy Glasglow, previously Marketing Coordinator at W.W. Norton Young Readers, joins as Associate Marketing Manager.
Nick Whitney joins Soho Press as Assistant Editor, acquiring and editing for Soho Crime. Previously he was Assistant Editor at Feminist Press.
At the American Psychological Association, Janette Lynn Neal joins as Contract Production Editor.
At Writers House, Tom Ishizuka joins as Media Rights Manager. Previously he was Creative Executive at Warner Bros. Discovery.
Cassie Youngstrom joins the American Booksellers Association as Education Project Coordinator, while Cedar Fields joins as Member Relations and Registration Coordinator and Zoe Perzo joins as Content Coordinator.
Yun Shen joins Open Road Integrated Media as Business and Growth Analyst.
At Pacific & Court, Paris Norman joins as Digital Marketing Coordinator.
Film critic A.O. Scott has moved to the New York Times Book Review.
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