Alyson Heller Executive Editor Aladdin
About the Editor
Aly Heller is an Executive Editor with the Aladdin imprint, where she is lucky enough to acquire and edit a range of titles, focusing on commercial young middle-grade through upper middle-grade fiction and select non-fiction. Regardless of genre or age category, Aly aims to center diverse voices and underrepresented communities and explore intersectional identities in her acquisitions.
Aly would love to find stories that explore complicated family bonds and/or complicated friendships; reimagined 90s/2000s popular movies for today’s tween audience; stories that have an adoptee as the main character (but the story itself is not about finding one’s birth parent(s)). She would also love to find mysteries/thrillers for middle-grade and upper-middle grade readers, action-adventure, and historical fiction that still has a contemporary/commercial voice and feel. For non-fiction, she is interested in exploring either unknown areas of historical events or more unknown areas of a historical figure’s life (or within an innovative format), that has a contemporary, accessible voice.
