Editorial Work
In June 2022, I became the editorial director at Algonquin Young Readers, and in September 2024, when the AYR list was shut down, I transitioned to focusing on Workman Kids. Prior to those positions, I served as editorial director at Lee & Low Books, and from August 2000 to January 2017, I worked at Arthur A. Levine Books, a now-shuttered imprint of Scholastic, where I started as an editorial assistant and rose to the position of executive editor. I feel very lucky to get to do the work I do, talking to fascinating people about their brilliant ideas and how we can best share those ideas with the world.
Books I've Published
Books I've edited or co-edited have been New York Times bestsellers (Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older; Front Desk by Kelly Yang) and won multiple awards, including the Stonewall Award for Younger Readers (When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita), a Coretta Scott King Author Honor (The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson), the Asian Pacific American Literature Award (Front Desk again), the William Morris Award for a YA Debut Novel (A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce), the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award (The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb), the Sydney Taylor Book Award (The Nazi Hunters again), the Stonewall Award for Older Readers (The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg), the Schneider Family Book Award (Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork), the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork), the Christopher Award (Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy), the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor (twice: Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee, and Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg), the Mildred Batchelder Award for Translation (Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano), and a New York Times Best Illustrated citation (The Snow Day by Komako Sakai). You can see a selection of the titles I published at Scholastic below, and someday I’ll put my full list together online.
What I’m Looking For
Watch this space!