Caroline Zancan

Executive EDITOR

Caroline Zancan is an Executive Editor at Holt, acquiring literary and upmarket fiction. She’s particularly drawn to story-driven literary fiction with a big pitch. Her taste in fiction has a dark streak, and she’s always on the lookout for meticulously plotted literary horror and mystery novels. She’s a sucker for big-hearted, off-beat, and voicey debuts, and especially loves to publish voices we haven’t traditionally gotten to hear from in the past. Her projects include Nafkote Tamirat’s The Parking Lot Attendant, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize; Hanna Pylväinen’s The End of Drum-Time, which was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award; Lottie Hazell’s Piglet; and Alison Espach’s The Wedding People.