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Margot Atwell has been named Executive Director and Publisher of The Feminist Press. She most recently worked as Director of Outreach and International for Kickstarter.
At Melville House, Janet Joy Wilson joins as VP, Sales. She was previously Senior Executive Sales Director at Penguin Random House Canada.
Leigh Nash will join House of Anansi as Publisher on April 19. She is currently Publisher at Invisible Publishing.
LuAnn Walther, SVP and Editorial Director of Vintage Books, Anchor Books, and Everyman’s Library, will retire on July 1. She was the founder of Bantam Classics and worked in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for thirty years. At Knopf Doubleday, Kelsey Manning joins as Associate Director of Marketing, moving over from the consumer marketing team. Asharee Peters joins as Associate Manager on March 28; she was previously Marketing Coordinator at Macmillan. Sophie Normil, lately Assistant Publicist at William Morrow, joins Vintage/Anchor as Marketing Associate. At Random House Children’s, Jade Hector, previously Designer at Abrams, joins as Designer; Michelle Crowe, previously Senior Designer at HarperCollins, joins as Designer; and Megan Shortt joins as Junior Designer. Lois Evans, lately Assistant Editor at Random House, moves over to Make Me A World as Editor.
At Candlewick Press, John Mendelson, SVP, Sales Director, and Walker Books Group Sales Director for the US and Canada, has left the company.
Hachette Book Group has announced a plan to combine the HBG and Workman sales and subrights teams, which took effect on March 14. Consequently, a number of people have joined HBG from Workman. Jodi Weiss joins the sales team as VP, Sales Strategy and Business Development and Workman Liaison. James Wehrle joins as Executive Director, Sales Operations. Katherina Gadow joins the digital and online team as National Accounts Manager. Caitlin Kleinschmidt joins the chain sales team as Senior National Accounts Manager and Workman Backlist Liaison. Liz Hunter joins as Associate Director, Field Sales and Christian Westermann joins as Associate Manager, Field Sales and Account Marketing. Adelia Kalyvas joins as Executive Director, Gift and Specialty Retail Sales. Jenny Mandel joins as Executive Director of Premium, Author Sales, and New Markets. And Kendra Poster joins as Director, Subsidiary Rights.
At Blackstone Publishing, John Lawton joins as Director of National Accounts. Previously he was SVP of Sales at Penguin.
At Workman, Suzie Bolotin, Publisher and Editorial Director of the adult, children’s, and calendar imprints, will retire on April 29, and current calendar publisher Janet Harris will retire on June 15. Page Edmunds will become Publisher, Workman Calendars on May 2; she is presently Executive Associate Publisher at Workman.
Steven Sussman will retire as Sales Director at Skyhorse at the end of the month.
In agency news, JL Stermer is launching Next Level Lit. She was previously Literary Agent at New Leaf Literary & Media.
Marina Padakis Lowry joins Union Square & Co. as Executive Managing Editor. Previously she was Senior Managing Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
At the University of Wisconsin Press, Founding Editor Ron Wallace is stepping down as editor of the Wisconsin Poetry series. Poet Jesse Lee Kercheval joins as Series Coeditor.
Pamela Paul is stepping down as Editor of The New York Times Book Review to join the paper’s Opinion section as a columnist.
At Zando Projects, Allegra Green joins as Senior Marketing Manager. Previously she was Senior Marketing Manager at Wiley.
At HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Camille Smaby joins as Marketing Manager, Online Optimization.
Marty Gosser joins Chelsea Green as Trade Sales Manager. Previously he was National Accounts Manager for Perseus Books Group.
At Abrams, Natalie Padberg Bartoo joins as Designer, Abrams Books for Young Readers and Appleseed. She was previously Designer at little bee.
Alyssa Garcia joins Sourcebooks Casablanca as Associate Marketing Manager.
Maria Orlandi joins Adams Media as Marketing & Publicity Associate.
At Bloomsbury, Ragav Maripudi joins as Assistant Editor.
At Printers Row Publishing, Vanessa Carrington joins as Inventory Manager. Sarah Gosnell joins as Production Manager. Laura Higueras joins as Digital Marketing Specialist. And Bryten Holborow joins as Publicity Coordinator.