About the Editor

Joie Asuquo joined Scribner in the fall of 2022 after working as a Junior Associate Producer at Simon & Schuster Audio. She loves books—across nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—that are thought-provoking, politically engaged, and formally inventive. She is particularly drawn to writing that makes the familiar strange, probes questions of identity and belonging, and situates itself within broader cultural or political contexts. Joie is always eager to read workplace or campus novels, Afrofuturist or dystopian literary fiction, and books in translation, as well as those about the natural world, film, and psychology. Some of her favorite books as a reader are Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck; A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky; Open City by Teju Cole; When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut; Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv; and everything by Toni Morrison. Joie grew up in the Bronx, New York, and earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Global Studies from the University of Virginia.