About the Editor

Joie Asuquo joined Scribner in fall 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 attentive, and formally inventive. She is drawn to writing that makes the familiar strange, probes questions of identity, and situates itself within broader cultural or political contexts. She is always eager to read workplace or campus novels, speculative and dystopian literary fiction, and books about the natural world; (sub)cultures; the film industry; left politics, consumerism, and capitalism; or psychoanalysis. Joie grew up in the Bronx, New York, and earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Global Studies from the University of Virginia.