Flatiron Books has a wholehearted approach to publishing: we acquire a limited number of the very best books across a variety of topics and genres and publish boldly, guided at every step by the belief that great books are for everyone. Led by publishing tastemakers Megan Lynch and Deb Futter, Flatiron Books has published 124 New York Times bestsellers, including 22 #1 bestsellers since we launched in 2014.
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President, Publisher
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Deb Futter (she/her) is the President and Publisher of Celadon Books and Flatiron Books. Prior to this role, she was the Publisher of Twelve and Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Grand Central Publishing, where she acquired and edited numerous bestselling and acclaimed books including Before The Fall by Noah Hawley, Innocent, Identical and Testimony by Scott Turow, A Natural Woman by Carole King, An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin, Spooner by Pete Dexter, You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. Before that, she spent 25 years at various divisions of Random House where she worked with Jane Hamilton, Deborah Tannen, Katie Couric, Jonathan Dee, Peggy Orenstein and many others. Recently, some of the books Deb has acquired and edited are novels by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Wolfpack by Abby Wambach, Being Henry by Henry Winkler, Saint X and Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin, A Wealth of Pigeons by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss, Beyond That, The Sea by Laura Spence-Ash, We are the Brennans by Tracey Lange, and Finding Freedom by Erin French.
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EVP, Publisher
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Megan Lynch has served as Publisher at Flatiron since 2019 and has overseen its day-to-day operations since 2024. She acquires a select list of fiction and nonfiction. Among the books she’s edited are the #1 New York Times bestsellers Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, and Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, as well as bestsellers including Simply More by Cynthia Erivo, My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner, Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez, Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia, Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, and The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Among the other authors she’s worked with are Mary H.K. Choi, Emma Rosenblum, Ben Fountain, Sarah Waters, Carrie Brownstein, Helen Oyeyemi, Meghan O’Rourke and Dinaw Mengestu. Her authors have won or been finalists for numerous awards including the MacArthur “Genius” grant, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. She came to Flatiron from Ecco, where she was Vice President and Editorial Director, and before that she worked for 11 years at Riverhead Books.
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SVP, Exec Dir, M&P
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Marlena Bittner joined Flatiron Books in May 2014, before we had published our first book. Since then, Marlena has grown the department from two people to a team of six and has overseen publicity efforts for all the titles. She has worked on all of the Oprah Winfrey titles, helmed the campaigns for Liane Moriarty’s and Jenny Lawson’s books, Glennon Doyle’s Love Warrior, and handled the massive international rollout for James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty. Marlena started her career in the publicity department at Little, Brown and Company in 2001. While there, she worked with a wide range of authors and genres, including bestselling humorists David Sedaris and Tina Fey; novels by David Foster Wallace, Tom Wolfe, Chad Harbach, Eowyn Ivey, and Kate Atkinson; thriller/crime novels by George Pelecanos, J. J. Abrams, and Ian Rankin; and a number of bestselling nonfiction books including titles by sportswriter John Feinstein, The Beatles by Bob Spitz, and Gail Collins’s When Everything Changed.
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SVP, Associate Publisher
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Malati Chavali is Senior Vice President and Associate Publisher at Flatiron Books, where she helps lead the imprint’s overall publishing strategy. She focuses on balancing the list, setting near- and long-term financial goals, and partnering closely with the sales department to maximize each book’s potential. Malati joined Flatiron Books in August 2020 after nearly a decade with Macmillan, where she headed the eBook Sales division and later established the Sales Strategy department, becoming a key member of the company’s sales management team. Prior to Macmillan, she served as Marketing Director at Time Inc. and led nonfiction marketing campaigns at John Wiley & Sons.
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Assoc Dir, Pub Ops
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Louis brings nearly a decade of expertise in operational strategy, data analytics, and supply chain optimization to the team. Currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he holds a B.A. in Psychology summa cum laude from Rowan University. At Flatiron Books, Louis leads division-wide Amazon advertising strategies, dynamic product pricing, and cost-reduction initiatives, having started his career with Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
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Dir, Editorial
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Caroline Bleeke joined Flatiron in 2014, at the very beginning of the fiction program. In addition to helping shape the vision and strategy for our fiction acquisitions, she publishes a list of literary and upmarket fiction, with an emphasis on underrepresented voices, family sagas, coming-of-age stories, historical fiction, fantasy crossover, clever retellings, innovative structure and style, writing with a strong sense of place, and lots of heart. Among the titles she has published at Flatiron are the New York Times bestseller, #1 IndieNext pick, and Reese’s Book Club pick Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy; Women’s Prize finalist and inaugural GMA Book Club pick Dominicana by Angie Cruz; Lambda Literary and Goodreads Choice Award finalist Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield; New York Times Notable Book Four Treasures of the Sky by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Jenny Tinghui Zhang; and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber’s adult debut novel, Alchemy of Secrets. Originally from St. Louis, Caroline began her career at Alfred A. Knopf and holds a Master’s degree in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature.
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Sr Editor
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Kukuwa Fraser (née Ashun) is an editor at Flatiron Books looking to build a list of literary, historical, and/or contemporary fiction that primarily centers a cast of nuanced, dynamic Black/Afro-identifying or BIPOC characters. She is an avid advocate for historically underrepresented voices, intergenerational stories, and is drawn to fun, engaging narratives that have a balance of humor and heart at its core. Her authors at Flatiron currently include debut writers Inci Atrek, Ruthvika Rao, and Rufaro Faith Mazarura. Prior to joining the team in 2020, Kukuwa worked with Writopia Lab, One Story Inc., the National Book Foundation, and received her MFA in fiction from NYU.
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Asst, Editorial
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Sophie Garcia-Cubas Assemat loves to find themselves halfway through a book they only meant to read a chapter of. They’re drawn to dark, fast-paced, enveloping plots that gnaw at questions of human nature. On the upmarket side, they are looking for literary horror, climate fiction, ruminating narrators, and complex prose that trusts the reader. They do not shy away from genre, and will always say yes to more sci-fi and fantasy in their lives. They like memoirs from people with writing styles as interesting as their lives, nonfiction rabbit holes that make them reconsider everything they thought they knew about a subject, and deeply reported narrative journalism. Forthcoming books on their list include the herbarium memoir-in-essays I Have This Thing for Flowers by former Rumpus editor Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn and Catherine Cheng’s hair-raising literary horror debut, Whitefish. Sophie is fluent in Spanish and eager to bring more Latinx writers to a U.S. audience. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Sophie is now located in NYC.
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Exec Editor
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Julianna Haubner joined Flatiron Books as an executive editor in 2024. She acquires narrative nonfiction, history, pop culture, and social science that contextualizes, enhances, and evolves our understanding of our world (and ourselves), and is especially drawn to projects that show us there is so much more to a story, feeling, idea, experience, or phenomenon than we may initially realize. Her authors at Flatiron include Sophia Bush, Daniel Burke, Scott Detrow, Alex Wagner, Rosie Spinks, Karen Tang, Jill Winger, Dante Stewart, Hadley Meares, and more. Before Flatiron, Julianna spent a decade at Avid Reader Press and Simon & Schuster, where she acquired and edited a number of bestselling and acclaimed titles, including Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang, How to Be a Rich Old Lady by Amanda Holden, A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction), Speak by Tunde Oyeneyin, Butts by Heather Radke, Access by Rebecca Grant, When Women Lead by Julia Boorstin, Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! by Julio Vincent Gambuto, Big Friendship by Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow, and Garrett M. Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky, When the Sea Came Alive, and Watergate (also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history), among others. A native New Yorker and part-time Vermonter, Julianna graduated with honors in English and history from Colby College.
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Asst Editor
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Sydney Jeon is building a list of upmarket and literary fiction and nonfiction with a particular interest in voice-driven narratives about coming of age, identity, and diaspora, especially from and about women of color and marginalized voices. Fiction with absurd, speculative, and horror elements are a plus, as is nonfiction with pop culture and social science themes. She loves writing that is visceral and vulnerable, and is always pulled to the funny and tender.
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VP, Executive Editor
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Sr Editor
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Elysia Liang acquires practical nonfiction with a focus on self-help, personal development, psychology, health, nutrition, relationships, personal finance, cooking, and lifestyle. She is especially interested in books that turn conventional wisdom on its head while offering practical tools and a distinct point of view for how readers can live fuller, more satisfying lives. Before joining Flatiron, Elysia was an editor at Harmony Rodale Convergent, where she published New York Times bestseller How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe and national bestseller Weightless by Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen, among many other titles. Her authors at Flatiron include Timm Chiusano, Dr. Mona Amin, Dr. Andrea Matsumura, Drs. Mark Pimentel and Ruchi Mathur, and Naseem Khuri and Robert Wilkinson.
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Asst Editor
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Kate Lucas (she/they) is interested in quirky, offbeat fiction with a strong sense of place, including horror, thrillers, science fiction, historical fantasy, supernatural fiction, and certain contemporary fiction, particularly centering LGBTQ+ characters. Their authors at Flatiron include Genki Kawamura and Quinn Connor. Before joining Flatiron in 2023, she was part of the international sales team at Ingram Content Group. Originally from Central Florida, she is now based in NYC.
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Asst, Editorial
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Kara McAndrew is drawn to literary and contemporary fiction that centers Black and queer voices. She’s interested in narratives that focus on identity, displacement and coming of age, especially those written by and about women of color. She’s also interested in stories that utilize distinct humor and wit to address underlying systemic inequalities. Prior to joining Flatiron in 2024 she was an editorial intern at Folio Literary Management.
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Assoc Editor
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Hallie Schaeffer acquires nonfiction that illuminates how the world works, from our closest relationships to the far reaches of space. Topically she is interested in the sciences, broadly defined; as well as anthropology, linguistics, ancient history, and literary criticism. She prioritizes function over form and values strong, serviceable writing in pursuit of a good argument as much as beautiful prose. Outside of the book world, she is an avid runner, knitter, and amateur painter who will submerge herself in the Atlantic any chance she gets.
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Sr Editor
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Jesse Shuman joined Flatiron Books as Senior Editor in 2026. Acquiring the gamut of commercial and upmarket fiction, he is drawn to books with singular voices, riveting plots, and unique hooks: compulsively readable mysteries and thrillers; horror; high-concept romantic comedies; crossover science fiction and fantasy; and smart, stylish character-driven fiction that combines poignancy with humor. He spent seven years at Ballantine Books, where he built a list of breakout literary voices and propulsive genre storytellers. He edited Jennette McCurdy’s New York Times bestselling debut novel Half His Age as well as novels by best–selling and award–winning authors Catherine Steadman, Chloe Gong, Joy Fielding, Jinwoo Chong, Leigh Stein, Antonia Angress, Alexia Arthurs, Shelly Jay Shore, Shannon Miller, Jo Firestone, Megan Cummins, Mary Helen Specht, and Adrian Bliss, among others.
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Sr Designer
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As the Senior Designer of the Flatiron Marketing Team, Helene is both project manager and lead designer for all promotional and advertising creative. Previously Art Director for Advertising and Promotion at St Martins Press, she also filled similar roles at companies like Steve Madden, Cartoon Network Latin America, Goody at Newell Rubbermaid and Turner Broadcasting corporate. Helene is a published author herself having released a DIY palmistry kit called Handful of Stars: A Palmistry Guidebook and Hand-printing Kit in 2019. She resides in Atlanta.
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Sr Dir, Marketing
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Kate Keating joined Flatiron Books in September 2024. In her role as Senior Director of Marketing, she oversees marketing strategy for all titles with a goal of reaching new and existing readers through all marketing touchpoints, and has guided and managed many of the imprint’s non-fiction New York Times bestsellers including: Careless People, The Next Day by Melinda French Gates, Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old, and The JFK Conspiracy. Previously, she has held publicity, marketing and digital strategy roles in both adult and children’s publishing at Simon & Schuster, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, and Random House Children’s Books where she worked for over eight years and formed the first dedicated Digital Marketing department. She has also worked in roles at L’Oreal USA in both Integrated Communications and Social Media. Kate is constantly reading two or more books at once.
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Asst, M&P
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Livy Oftedahl joined Flatiron Books as a marketing intern in 2024. In her role as Marketing & Publicity Assistant, she supports marketing and publicity campaigns through social media, influencer marketing, author events, media outreach, and cross-functional campaign coordination. Previously, she was the National Social Media Specialist for Barnes & Noble, where she focused on short-form video strategy, content creation, and influencer partnerships. Livy is especially interested in reader-first marketing, event coordination, and genre fiction.
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Asst Mgr, Marketing
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Raven Ross (She / Her) joined Flatiron Books in November of 2026 after previously working at Viking Books, Penguin Books, Penguin Life, and Riverhead Books imprints under Penguin Random House. She has executed and collaborated on campaigns for various New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, most notably Shari Lapena, Ramani Durvasula, Elaine Castillo, and Phillip B. Williams. At Flatiron Books, she plans and executes marketing campaigns across the fiction and non-fiction list. Raven loves reading character-driven literary fiction, narrative essays, and the occasional swoon-worthy romance. In her free time, you can find her knitting, wheelthrowing, or relaxing near any large body of water.
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Sr Mgr, Marketing
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Jonathan Sung is a Senior Marketing Manager at Flatiron Books, where he oversees marketing campaigns for titles across the imprint’s nonfiction list. He has managed campaigns for Flatiron’s New York Times bestsellers including Simply More by Cynthia Erivo, Future Boy by Michael J. Fox, One Plate at a Time by Demi Lovato, and Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine by David A. Kessler, MD. He started his career working in influencer marketing and entertainment partnerships at United Entertainment Group and prior to joining Flatiron in 2025, he worked at Penguin Random House, leading marketing campaigns for the Harmony and Rodale imprints for authors including Mary Claire Haver, MD, Yung Pueblo, Melissa Urban, Kat Ashmore, Jessica McCabe, and more.
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Dir, Marketing
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Publicist
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Alexus Blanding is a Publicist at Flatiron Books with a passion for championing stories that spark conversation and leave lasting impact. She has helmed publicity campaigns for New York Times bestselling and award-winning books, including DEAR BLACK GIRLS by A’ja Wilson, MASTER OF ME by Keke Palmer, THE BIG LIE by Jonathan Lemire, THE THREE MOTHERS and ERASED by Anna Malaika Tubbs, and SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER by Vincent Yu, winner of the 2026 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. A proud South Carolina native, Alexus holds a BA in English from the University of South Carolina, an MFA in Creative Writing from American University, and a graduate certificate from the Denver Publishing Institute.
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Sr Mgr, Publicity
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Roxanne Jones is Flatiron’s Senior Publicity Manager, with over a decade of experience at leading publishing houses, including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Hachette Book Group. She began her publishing journey at Columbia University’s intensive publishing program and has since managed campaigns for a wide range of adult fiction and nonfiction titles. Highlights of her work include campaigns for some of America’s most influential names, such as Demi Lovato, Gail Simmons, Dr. Sasha Hamdani, Misty Copeland, Ozzy Osbourne, and Octavia E. Butler. She currently focuses on Flatiron’s nonfiction program, with an emphasis on wellness, lifestyle, and cookbooks.
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Mgr, Publicity
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Cathleen Kenney joined Flatiron Books in September 2018 as a publicity intern. Since being hired full-time in 2019, she has worked on a variety of campaigns ranging from women’s fiction to thrillers to memoirs. She has worked with bestselling and critically acclaimed authors, including Leigh Bardugo, Ashley C. Ford, Julia Armfield, Jason Rekulak, Sarah Pinborough, and Matthew Perry. Her favorite books have a speculative twist to them, and she loves working on memoirs. Prior to joining Flatiron she received an MS in Publishing at Pace University. Outside of work, she can be found doing arts and crafts of all kinds and cuddling with her pet cat!
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Dir, Publicity
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Claire McGinnis’s 20 years of publishing experience and publicity expertise make her a big picture strategic thinker, skilled at working collaboratively across departments. She joined Flatiron from Riverhead Books, where for many years she built robust media relationships and directed campaigns for literary and commercial fiction, literature in translation, multicultural voices, idea-driven nonfiction and memoir, working with writers that include Lauren Groff, Marlon James, Miranda July, Emma Straub, Katie Kitamura, David Treuer, Olga Tokarczuk, Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Wolitzer, Mark Kurlansky, Brit Bennett, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Brandon Taylor, among others.
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Asst, M&P
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Livy Oftedahl joined Flatiron Books as a marketing intern in 2024. In her role as Marketing & Publicity Assistant, she supports marketing and publicity campaigns through social media, influencer marketing, author events, media outreach, and cross-functional campaign coordination. Previously, she was the National Social Media Specialist for Barnes & Noble, where she focused on short-form video strategy, content creation, and influencer partnerships. Livy is especially interested in reader-first marketing, event coordination, and genre fiction.
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Sr Mgr, Publicity
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Chris Smith is a Senior Publicity Manager at Flatiron Books. He began his publishing career as a publicity assistant in 2013 at Viking / Penguin and has since worked with New York Times bestselling authors S.A. Cosby, Amor Towles, Matt Haig; National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes, comedian Gary Gulman, rock climber Tommy Caldwell, street artist STIK, First Lady Jill Biden, actor Michael J. Fox and more. He holds an MFA in poetry from Northeast Ohio Masters of Fine Arts, the nation’s only consortial MFA creative writing program. An avid runner, he won the 2015 Brooklyn Marathon. Chris lives in Cleveland Heights, OH, with his wife, two kids, and Blue Heeler, Cowboy.
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Assoc Publicist
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Sr Designer
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Kelly Gatesman joined Flatiron Books in 2016. As a Senior Designer in the Art Department, she has designed and art directed covers in a wide range of genres, including books by bestselling authors Stephanie Garber, Jeremy Renner, Cynthia Erivo, Dr. Michael Greger, Kate Alice Marshall, and Genki Kawamura. Outside of publishing, Kelly is always in the middle of making something. She is an avid crafter, sewist, and baker.
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Exec Dir, Art
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Laywan Kwan is the Executive Director of Art at Flatiron Books where she oversees the design of all the jackets and covers. She joined the team in 2024 after 17 years at Simon & Schuster where she was an Associate Art Director for Atria. There, she designed and art directed covers for countless bestselling authors including Taylor Jenkins Reid, Colleen Hoover, Lisa Jewell, Rebecca Serle, Jess Kidd, Sy Montgomery, Issa Rae, Danny Trejo, and many others. Her work has been featured in Print Magazine, The Huffington Post, Literary Hub, Electric Lit, Casual Optimist, Spine Magazine, and other publications. When she’s not designing book covers, she’s either taking a nap or eating potato chips.
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Assoc Designer
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Peyton Stark is an Associate Designer at Flatiron Books, where she collaborates with the design team to create book covers and jackets. Before joining Flatiron, she worked as a freelance illustrator and designer for a range of publishers, including St. Martin’s Press, Zibby Publishing, and Book Bridge Press. Outside of the book world, she enjoys knitting, boxing, and painting.
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Sr Designer
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Claire Sullivan joined Flatiron Books as a senior designer in 2025, having previously worked for Atria Books and Gallery Books at Simon & Schuster for 6 years. She has designed covers for bestselling and award-winning authors including Ruth Ware, Sarah Pinborough, Daniel Kraus, Eugene Robinson, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Elizabeth Beller, Thomas Keneally, Vanessa Hua, Gary Tyler, I. S. Berry, and Marcus Kliewer. Prior to beginning her career in publishing, she studied illustration, painting, and creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
In her free time, she enjoys watching movies, baking, and playing badminton in the park.
