I was a 2017 Publishers Weekly Star Watch honoree and the 2012 recipient of the Lawrence Peel Ashmead Editorial Award, and I have written about the book business for Poets & Writers. I got my start as a reader of poetry manuscripts at Carnegie Mellon University Press while studying computer science, and joined Little, Brown in 2014 after working for Simon & Schuster and the Regan Arts imprint of Phaidon. Other recent and upcoming authors include Accidentally Wes Anderson, Ansel Adams, Ayesha Curry, Epicurious, Vivian Howard, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, Brad Leone, Riot Games, Julia Rothman, and Marcus Samuelsson. Happily, those collaborations have resulted in many acclaimed bestsellers, including Pete Souza’s Obama: An Intimate Portrait and Shade, Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and Sarah Knight’s No F*cks Given Guides, which have sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide. I love working with authors to connect readers to their passions-whether that means politics, Instant Pots, or pop music. Most of those books have a visual component, and all of them are designed to make readers pick them up and immediately engage with them. I run Little, Brown’s imprint Voracious, where I publish books driven by appetite, passion, and curiosity across a range of interests and formats, from food and culture to storytelling, science, current events, and beyond. Michael Szczerban VP, Editorial Director of Voracious Among the authors I’ve had the pleasure of working with are Mark Hyman, David Perlmutter, Andrew Weil, Amy Cuddy, Walter Mischel, Nicholas Christakis, Scott Jurek, Joel Fuhrman, William Sears, Sue Johnson, John Ratey, Arianna Huffington, Roy Peter Clark, Donald and Lillian Stokes, The Dalai Lama, Josh Axe, Nicholas Christakis, David Christian, Roy Peter Clark, Amy Cuddy, Jared Diamond, Joel Fuhrman, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Arianna Huffington, Mark Hyman, Sue Johnson, Scott Jurek, Daniel Kahneman, Marie Kondo, Walter Mischel, Amy Myers, David Perlmutter, John Ratey, William Sears, Donald and Lillian Stokes, Cass Sunstein, Harriet Washington, and Andrew Weil. My books usually have a prescriptive element but they might also be narrative. I oversee publishing across the Little, Brown Spark list, and as an editor, I acquire within the categories of health, psychology/self-help, science, parenting, and reference.

I joined Little, Brown in 2005 after working at Atria Books, Broadway Books, and HarperCollins. Tracy Behar Vice President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief

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