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 thoughtful, 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. 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.