Marysue Rucci - Prior to joining Scribner as Publisher in 2025, Marysue Rucci was the VP, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of Marysue Rucci Books. Before that, she oversaw the fiction program at the Simon & Schuster imprint as VP, Editor-in-Chief for nine years. She acquires literary fiction, suspense fiction, and book club fiction, as well as memoir and narrative nonfiction. Over the years she has worked with a wide range of critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling authors including: Mona Awad, Bobbi Brown, Chris Cleave, Alice Elliott Dark, Laura Dave, Alice Hoffman, Jessica Knoll, Wally Lamb, Megan Miranda, Helen Phillips, Shonda Rhimes, Sarah Ruhl, Matthew Thomas, Rebecca Traister, and Paul Yoon.
Stu Smith, Vice President, Deputy Publisher, began his career at Simon & Schuster in 2004. For seventeen years he held several positions selling to a wide variety of accounts in the sales department before joining Scribner as Associate Publisher in 2021. Stu is an avid reader and vocal book champion. At Scribner, he is an organizer and project leader. He oversees product development, production, campaign strategy, marketing and distribution. Stu has an eye on each and every book we publish.
Kathryn Belden, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, joined the staff at Scribner in 2015. In 2024, she was the recipient of the Medal for Editorial Excellence from the Center for Fiction. She is interested in the breadth of the American experience, engaging largely in the categories of literary fiction, history, social and cultural history, race and gender, nature and environment, graphic works, poetry, as well as memoir and biography. Kathryn’s engagement with most books begins with voice. She has edited such stellar writers as Roz Chast, Ash Davidson, Sidik Fofana, Jessica B. Harris, Mitchell S. Jackson, Nora Krug, Kiese Laymon, Airea D. Matthews, Tom Perrotta, Jason Reynolds, Arundhati Roy, Sam Sax, Lisa See, Sarah Smarsh, Amy Stanley, Jesmyn Ward, and John Edgar Wideman. Among these writers are recipients of MacArthur “genius” Fellowships, Guggenheim Awards, and Whiting Awards as well as winners or finalists of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the NAACP Image Award, the Kirkus Prize, and various others. Her books have appeared on best-of-the-year lists, from the New York Times top ten to Barack Obama’s favorites. Previously she was an editor at Bloomsbury, Four Walls Eight Windows, and Harmony Books/Crown Publishers.
Nan Graham, Senior Vice President, Publisher-at-Large, Editor, was Publisher of Scribner from 2012 to early 2025 and Editor-in-Chief of the imprint from 1994-2011. She began her career at Pantheon and then worked at Viking Penguin for a decade. Her titles have garnered the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other accolades, and her many bestselling, award-winning authors include Anthony Doerr, Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Annie Proulx, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tóibín, Dana Spiotta, Monica Ali, M. L. Stedman, Laura Cumming, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Andrew Solomon, and Stephen King. She edited Solomon’s National Book Award-winner The Noonday Demon and the Pulitzer Prize winners The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and Frank McCourt's memoir Angela’s Ashes. She also edited the memoirs The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
Colin Harrison, Vice President and Editorial Director, is interested in current events, culture, history, politics, nature, and commercial suspense fiction. He has been at Scribner since 2001 and served as Editor-in-Chief of Scribner from 2013-2025. Some of his recent Scribner books include: A Walk in the Park, by Kevin Fedarko (winner of the Andrew Carnegie Prize), Didion & Babitz, by Lili Anolik, War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar, Bloodlines by Nelson and Alex DeMille, Shanghai by Joseph Kanon, and Cuba, by Ada Ferrer (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Los Angeles Book Prize). Among his past books are The Mueller Report by The Washington Post, Light Perpetual, Golden Hill, and Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford, the Red Sparrow series by Jason Matthews, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and Empire of the Summer Moon (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) by S.C. Gwynne. Selected other past books include The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko, Nixonland by Rick Perlstein, Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz, Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton, and Jarhead by Anthony Swofford. Six of the books he has edited have been made into major motion pictures.
Rick Horgan, Vice President and Executive Editor, has held senior positions at several publishing companies. More than 100 of his titles have been national bestsellers. In addition, his books have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, Hugo Award, Edgar Award, Pen Literary Award, National Jewish Book Award, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is interested in acquiring “big idea” books, biography, history, politics, current events, business, science, smart pop culture, sports, adventure narratives, and popular philosophy and psychology. Previous and current authors include Bill Gates, Daniel H. Pink, Condoleezza Rice, Maria Shriver, Henry Louis Gates, Christine Brennan, Angela Duckworth, Chris Miller, and Steven Pinker. Rick's Scribner bestsellers include Ariana Neumann’s When Time Stopped, Angela Duckworth’s Grit, Desmond Shum’s Red Roulette, Chris Miller’s Chip War, and McKay Coppins’ Romney.
Kara Watson, Vice President, Executive Editor, acquires literary and book club fiction, memoir, narrative and practical nonfiction, and cookbooks. Recent novels include the national bestseller Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, Death Valley by Melissa Broder, The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane, Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, and The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer. Nonfiction lifestyle books are The World in a Wine Glass by Ray Isle, The Everlasting Meal Cookbook by Tamar Adler, Gateau by Aleksandra Crapanzano, and The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margareta Magnusson. Rediscovered classics on Kara’s list include O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker, The Women in Black by Madeleine St John, and The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff. Forthcoming projects include Say More by former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki; novels by Stephanie Danler, Claire Kilroy, Rachel Lyon, and Kat Tang; narrative nonfiction by Rachel Clarke and Annie Liontas, and an update of Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking. Kara also works with Joanna Cannon, Tahmima Anam, Andrea Lee, AJ Pearce, Carole Johnstone, Ethan Joella, Katy Butler, Dr. Wendy Mogel, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Kate Manning, Ken Jennings, Ann Beattie and others, and oversees key backlist including the F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway catalogs.
Emily Graff joined Scribner as an Executive Editor in March 2025. She is also an Executive Editor at Simon Element. She began her career at The Penguin Press and has worked at Simon & Schuster and Harper. She has published an array of critically acclaimed and bestselling authors. Notable titles include The Barbizon by Paulina Bren, the national bestseller Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspé, the New York Times bestseller How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell, the #1 New York Times bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, the New York Times bestseller Mobituaries by Mo Rocca, and How to Not Die Alone by Logan Ury.
For Scribner, Emily acquires a range of nonfiction, including biography, history, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and idea-driven nonfiction. For Simon Element, Emily’s areas of interest include health & wellness, personal development, psychology, and science.
Christopher Richards, Vice President and Executive Editor, joined Scribner in 2022. Chris began his career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux before moving to Penguin Press, where he edited and acquired New York Times bestsellers and critically acclaimed books that engage culture, science, and important issues of our time. He acquires a range of serious nonfiction—especially history, science, politics, literary memoir, poetry, and cultural criticism—and select literary fiction. His books have been finalists for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. Among his publications are The Climate Book and No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg, the #1 New York Times bestselling activist and 2019’s Time Person of the Year; Fundamentals by Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek; bestsellers The Bill of Obligations and The World by the President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass; and What You Have Heard Is True by poet Carolyn Forché, a National Book Award finalist. Forthcoming Scribner authors include astrophysicist Katie Mack, journalist Sally Hayden, poet Patricia Smith, biologist Monica Dus, historian Augustine Sedgewick, astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, and New Yorker essayist Joshua Rothman.
Anne Speyer, Executive Editor, joined Scribner in 2025 to publish elevated suspense and thriller, upmarket book club fiction, and literary fiction. Across genres, she is drawn to distinctive voices, complicated characters, and compelling plotlines. She was previously an executive editor at Marysue Rucci Books, and before that was an editor at Ballantine Books for over a decade, where she edited award-winning and bestselling books by J. P. Delaney, C. J. Tudor, Alan Bradley, Christy Lefteri, and Julia Heaberlin, as well as debut fiction by Ava Glass, Antonia Angress, Delia Cai, and Michelle Hoffman. Recent acquisitions include They All Fall in Love at the End by Haili Blassingame and The Dog Who Changed My Life, an anthology edited by Alice Hoffman.
Katie Raissian, Executive Editor, joined Scribner in 2024 where she 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 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 Journal, 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 many others. Although Katie currently lives in Brooklyn, her hometowns are Cork City and Belfast, and she is a proud Irish Iranian with a particular affinity for literature from both countries. She is looking for and excited by writing that pulsates and is unputdownable, stories with a strong sense of place, plot, and emotional intellect. She loves fiction in all its forms—including novellas and story collections—from all over the world and is always eager to find fresh and exciting voices. In nonfiction she is particularly drawn to memoir, psychology, philosophy, books about nature / the natural world, and true crime.
Sally Howe, Senior Editor, joined Scribner in 2016. She is interested in acquiring literary fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, essays, and cultural history, with a particular focus on narratives driven by unusual perspectives and innovative ideas. Her books have won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger and been finalists for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Wellcome Book Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and the Costa Novel Award. Recent titles include The New Life by Tom Crewe, Witchcraft by Marion Gibson, and To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren, and forthcoming projects include Clear by Carys Davies, Las Indignas by Agustina Bazterrica, and Happiness and Love by Zoe Dubno. She also works with Thomas Page McBee, Beth Nguyen, Martha McPhee, and Rachel Monroe, among other writers.
Rebekah Jett, Editor, came to Scribner in 2019. Her acquisitions include novels and story collections by award-winning authors Arinze Ifeakandu, A.K. Blakemore, Fernanda Trías, and Yan Ge, and by debut authors Alexander Sammartino and Kelsey Norris. She also handles various backlist titles by Edith Wharton, Ishmael Reed, and Richard Adams. Her interests include literary fiction, some upmarket fiction, and narrative nonfiction. Across category, she admires storytelling with distinct style, a touch of humor, and unforgettable characters. In fiction she welcomes realism and genre influences alike, and in non-fiction she has a particular interest in outdoor and nature writing, especially by writers under-represented in those categories.
Emily Polson, Associate Editor, joined Scribner in spring 2021 by way of Simon & Schuster Audio, the David Black Literary Agency, and Book Riot. Recent projects include Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter, Worry by Alexandra Tanner, Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola, Punished by Ann-Helén Laestadius, and This Is Your Mother by Erika J. Simpson. Her other authors include Simon Parkin, Jan Carson, Diamond Forde, Maria Adelmann, Mick Carrigan, and Fiona Warnick. Emily is looking to acquire voice-driven literary fiction, memoir, cultural criticism, narrative nonfiction, and poetry that “speak into the silence” (Carmen Maria Machado) of the existing canon. Before working in publishing, Emily taught writing in a Mississippi prison and English in a Basque ikastola. She assists Colin Harrison.
Sabrina Pyun, Associate Editor, came to Scribner as part of the Associates Program after interning at Thompson Literary Agency and officially joined the team in 2020. She is the editor of the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction Longlisted novel Dear Chrysanthemums by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (May 2023), See: Loss. See Also: Love. by Yukiko Tominaga (May 2024) and the forthcoming novel The Perfect Home by Daniel Kenitz (January 2025). She handles the Ursula K. Le Guin titles on Scribner’s list, including the reissue of The Language of the Night with an introduction by Ken Liu (May 2024) and The Lathe of Heaven with an introduction by Kelly Link (January 2023). On the backlist, she had Of Dice and Men by David M. Ewalt updated with a new extended afterword and introduction by Joe Manganiello (March 2024). She is looking to acquire literary and upmarket fiction (particularly with speculative elements), memoir, narrative and big-idea nonfiction, and select cookbooks. She is most engaged by character-driven books that explore big concepts on an intimate and personal level. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University where she majored in Writing Seminars. She assists Nan Graham.
Sophie Guimaraes, Assistant Editor, joined Scribner in the spring of 2023. She’s looking for literary fiction, select upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and deep-dive journalism that look out into the world. Sophie is drawn to works that are immersive, voicey, and subtly experimental in style or form, and she particularly enjoys when a playful exterior gives way to a serious, high-stakes core. She aims to publish idea-centric works by writers with something to say. Before Scribner, Sophie spent a year living in Porto, Portugal, and speaks French and Portuguese. She assists Rick Horgan and Kara Watson.
Madison Thân, Editorial Assistant, joined Scribner in the fall of 2023. She assists Kathy Belden and Chris Richards.
Katie McClimon, Editorial Assistant, joined Scribner in 2025. She is also an editorial assistant at Simon Element, which she joined in 2022. She assists Emily Graff. She is interested in narrative nonfiction, memoir, big idea books with a focus on psychology and mental health, literary fiction, upmarket fiction, suspense, and poetry. Across genres, she is drawn to a unique voice that feels fresh and unexpected. She previously worked as a publishing assistant at powerHouse Books and is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
Joie Asuquo, Editorial Assistant, assists Sally Howe and Katie Raissian.
Emma Tausig joined Scribner as a publishing associate in February 2025. She began her career at Simon Element and Marysue Rucci Books. She has assisted on bestselling and critically acclaimed titles by Mona Awad, Paul Yoon, Wally Lamb, and many more. She is passionate about amplifying new voices in both fiction and nonfiction and looks for an inventive literary voice that hooks her from the first page. Some of her favorite titles include Women by Chloe Caldwell, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Gemma Torras, Publishing Assistant, joined Scribner in spring 2025 after working in Simon & Schuster’s Associate program. She graduated with a degree in Business Innovation and Enterprise from the University of Edinburgh. She assists the Deputy Publisher, Stu Smith.
Maya Rutherford, Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity, began her career at Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint in 1991, and since then has worked at a variety of publishing houses, including HarperCollins, Viking, W. W. Norton, Bloomsbury, and Houghton Mifflin. Over her career she has worked with such writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Ann Patchett, Louise Erdrich, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sebastian Junger, Geraldine Brooks, Rebecca Solnit, Ruth Ozeki, Leila Slimani, and Ann Beattie.
Katie Monaghan, Vice President, Senior Director of Publicity, Senior Director of Publicity and Marketing for Stephen King, has been with the imprint since 2005, and works with Stephen King, Colm Tóibín, Rachel Kushner, Lisa See, Angela Duckworth, Dana Spiotta, Miranda July, and many others.
Paul Samuelson, Deputy Director of Publicity, was most recently the Director of Publicity for Twelve Books where he orchestrated New York Times bestselling campaigns for books such as A Warning by Anonymous, Barbara Ehrenreich's most recent books including Natural Causes, Susan Page's biography of Barbara Bush The Matriarch, and Shea Serrano's Movies (And Other Things), among many others. Prior to his work at Twelve, Paul was a senior publicist at Random House Children's executing New York Times bestselling campaigns for books like Nikki Giovanni's Hip Hop Speaks to Children. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and also received his MA in English from the University of Chicago.
Clare Maurer, Senior Publicity Manager, returned to Scribner in 2025, having originally joined the imprint in 2020 when she worked with authors including Jesmyn Ward, Kiese Laymon, Shonda Rhimes, Ken Jennings, Sarah Rose Etter, Sidik Fofana, and Owen King. In the interim, she spearheaded lead fiction campaigns for the Marysue Rucci Books imprint, working with bestselling and acclaimed authors including Laura Dave, Jessica Knoll, Megan Miranda, Paul Yoon, Mona Awad, Vanessa Chan and others, in addition to select narrative and prescriptive nonfiction campaigns for the Simon Element imprint. Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, she held publicity and marketing positions at St. Martin’s Publishing Group. She is a graduate of Monmouth University.
Kassandra Engel, Publicity Manager, joined Scribner in 2023, and works on a wide range of Scribner’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including authors such as Lisa See, Yan Ge, Tim Marshall, Kat Tang, Matthew Zapruder, and more. She’s previously held positions at Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint and Deloitte Consulting LLP’s PR team, aligned to their cloud computing portfolio. She holds an M.A. in Communication from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in English from Rutgers University – New Brunswick.
Addie Gilligan, Publicist, joined Scribner in 2024. Prior to joining Scribner, Addie worked at Fortier Public Relations on non-fiction titles such as Charles Duhigg’s New York Times bestseller Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection (Random House, Penguin Random House), Dr. Tessa West’s Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You (Portfolio, Penguin Random House), and The Secret Language of the Body: Regulate Your Nervous System, Heal Your Body, Free Your Mind (HarperOne, HarperCollins) by Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin. Addie attended NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute in 2022 and is a 2023 graduate of the University of Virginia.
Ellie Crowley, Publicity Assistant, joined Scribner in 2024. She is a graduate of Boston College where she studied English and Irish Studies. Before Scribner, Ellie worked at Beacon Hill Books in Boston and interned at W.W. Norton and Macmillan Learning. She assists Maya Rutherford.
Nicole Miller, Publicity Assistant, joined Scribner in 2024. She is a graduate of Hamilton College where she studied Literature. Before Scribner, Nicole worked at Citadel LLC in Talent Acquisition. She assists Katie Monaghan.
Brianna Yamashita, Vice President, Executive Director of Marketing at Scribner, has strategized and executed New York Times bestselling campaigns for such authors as Anthony Doerr, Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Colm Toibin, Huma Abedin, Jen Psaki, Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, Mark Bittman, Neal Katyal, Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski’s and Animal Planet’s Jackson Galaxy, among others. In addition, she has spearheaded the marketing for major franchises such as The Whole30, established marketing partnerships with leading lifestyle brands, and instituted marketing best-practices and analytics-driven book marketing systems. Prior to joining Scribner, Brianna headed up the Lifestyle marketing division at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and before that, served as Associate Publisher and Executive Director of Marketing & Publicity at Penguin Random House’s TarcherPerigee imprint. She is a graduate of Skidmore College.
Ashley Gilliam Rose, Associate Director of Marketing, has developed and executed campaigns for books such as Why We Sleep, Shoe Dog, and Grit, and for authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Colm Tóibín, Kathy Reichs, Lisa See, Stephen King, and Jennifer Egan. She works on imprint social media efforts, advertising, reporting, and building partnerships. She was previously Scribner’s Publishing Manager and the editor of a new translation of Darkness at Noon and other backlist projects. She holds an MA in Editing and Writing from Emerson College.
Colleen Nuccio, Associate Director of Marketing, joined Scribner in 2024. She previously worked in marketing at Penguin Random House where she executed and assisted with campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors such as Martha Hall Kelly, Emily Giffin, and Jodi Picoult. She graduated from George Washington University and loves being a dog mom to her puppy, Shep.
Lauren Dooley, Senior Marketing Manager, joined Scribner in 2022. With Scribner, Lauren has developed and executed campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors and books including The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner and White House by the Sea by Kate Storey, and national bestsellers including Worry by Alexandra Tanner, Clear by Carys Davies, Death Valley by Melissa Broder and more. Lauren manages social media and assists with advertising and partnerships.
Alyssa Weinberg, Associate Marketing Manager, joined Scribner in 2025. She previously worked in marketing at Macmillan Publishers where she executed and assisted with campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors such as Fran Littlewood, Chris Whitaker, and Alison Espach. She holds a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College.
Mark Galarrita, Publishing and Marketing Manager, joined Scribner in 2021. He's spearheaded marketing campaigns for authors such as New York Times Bestsellers Chris Miller and McKay Coppins, bestselling authors such as Tom Rob Smith and NFL Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson, award-winning poet Shane McCrae, former Philadelphia Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews, Whiting Award and Gotham Book Prize winner Sidik Fofana, and many more. With the publishing office, he develops and executes administrative support operations and works with the Associate Publisher. He is a graduate of The Clarion West Writers' Workshop and The University of Alabama MFA program.
Jaya Miceli, Scribner's Senior Art Director, joined the imprint in July 2014. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, with a BFA in illustration, she learned jacket design and typography on the job during her fourteen years at Penguin, where she began as a junior designer. Jaya art directs and designs jackets for a wide array of authors including Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Colm Tóibín, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Egan, Anthony Doerr, Angela Duckworth, Don DeLillo, Rachel Kushner, and many more on Scribner’s esteemed literary list.
Tristan Offit, Associate Art Director, joined the Scribner team in 2019. She has worked on a variety of covers across fiction and nonfiction, including repackaged classics from Scribner’s backlist by Edith Wharton and Eudora Welty, rediscovered classics like Fortnight in September and O Caledonia, and covers for contemporary authors such as Sarah Smarsh, Carys Davies, Alan Garner, Andrea Lee and Agustina Bazterrica. She is a graduate of Vassar College with a BA in Art History and received her AAS degree in Graphic Design from Parsons School of Design.
Sydney Newman, Art Assistant, joined the Scribner team in October 2017. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, with a degree in illustration. Before starting her Scribner career, she assisted at Penguin Random House in the Penguin Art Group.
