About the Editor

Katie Raissian, Executive Editor, acquires and edits literary fiction, upmarket fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction. Prior to joining Scribner, she was Senior Editor at Grove Atlantic, where she worked for ten years, during which time she acquired and edited a number of bestselling and award-winning authors including Colin Barrett, Candace Bushnell, Ada Calhoun, Isabella Hammad, Megan Hunter, Claire Keegan, Dantiel W. Moniz, Anna Noyes, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Diane Oliver, Regan Penaluna, and Madhuri Vijay. She is also the founder and publisher of Stonecutter, a journal of international and US based art and literature, where she published original work by John Ashbery, Cathy Linh Che, Mark O’Connell, Renee Gladman, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Sally Rooney, Newsha Tavakolian, and Nicole Sealey, among others. At Scribner, her titles include Obama Summer Reading Pick, Rosarita by Anita Desai; National Bestseller, Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura; and forthcoming projects include An Arrow in Flight by Mary Lavin; The Hour of the Wolf by Fatima Bhutto; All That is Left of Life by Roberta Recchia; and All the Flowers by Róisín O’Shea. Katie is a proud Irish Iranian with a particular affinity for literature from both countries and international literature in general. She is looking for writing that pulsates and is unputdownable, stories with a strong sense of place, plot, and emotional intellect. She loves fiction in all its forms from all over the world and is always eager to find fresh and exciting debut voices. In nonfiction she is particularly drawn to memoir, psychology, philosophy, books about nature/the natural world, and true crime.