Henry Holt & Company
PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER
Andrew Miller joined Holt as President and Publisher in January 2024. Before coming to Holt he was VP and Editorial Director for Nonfiction at Alfred A. Knopf, where he was an editor for more than twenty years, working with authors such as John Carreyrou, Casey Cep, Ken Burns, Michael Finkel, Kory Stamper, Cat Bohannon, George Packer, John Vaillant, Kelly and Juliet Starrett, Peter Frankopan, and Gary Bass.
Vice president, editorial director
Emily Griffin is the VP, Editorial Director for Fiction at Holt, where she oversees and shapes the imprint fiction list in addition to acquiring titles herself. At the Harper imprint of HarperCollins, she edited bestselling and acclaimed novelists including Sara Collins, Liv Constantine, Meg Mason, Etaf Rum, Plum Sykes, and Elizabeth Wetmore. Her books have been selected for the Read With Jenna and Reese Witherspoon book clubs, as well as the Book of the Month Club, B&N Book Club, and Indie Next, and her list includes a Costa First Novel Prize winner and finalists for the NBCC Awards and the Women’s Prize. She has also edited nonfiction from authors like Anderson Cooper, Roxane Gay, Jessi Klein, and Casey Wilson. Before working at Harper, Emily began her career at Grand Central.
VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Duggan joined Holt in 2021 after working as the editor of an eponymous imprint at Crown, and before that, as an executive editor at Harper. The authors he has worked with at Holt include Hilary Mantel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Rick Atkinson, and he has also edited books by Timothy Snyder, David Wallace-Wells, Michiko Kakutani, J.D. Vance, Daniel Mendelsohn, Karan Mahajan, Annie Dillard, and Uzodinma Iweala. The books he has edited include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and multiple finalists for the National Book Award. He has received the Editorial Excellence Award from the Biographers International Organization, and is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.
VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Serena Jones joined Holt in 2010 after working at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and NAL. Her list is mostly narrative nonfiction, with special interests in current events, politics, biography, social justice, science, true crime, and adventure. Favorite titles include NYT bestseller Pelosi by Molly Ball, NYT Notable Book Black Wave by Kim Ghattas, Test Gods by Nicholas Schmidle, and The Book of V. by Anna Solomon, a "Good Morning America" Book Club Pick. Serena has worked with, among others, Stacey Abrams, Jimmy Carter, Ryan Grim, Michael Grunwald, Diane Guerrero, Skip Hollandsworth, Minka Kelly, Lenny Kravitz, Gretchen Morgenson, Bill O’Reilly, Virginia Sole-Smith, Tim Weiner, and Bob Woodward.
VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Retha Powers acquires fiction and nonfiction. She is passionate about books by authors—especially people of color and LGBTQIA—who write inventively about the intersections of race, identity, gender, history, and current events. She is particularly interested in working with writers who challenge the status quo, build community, and create compulsively readable works that connect readers from varying backgrounds and experiences. Her acquisitions include Carolyn Ferrell's acclaimed novel Dear Miss Metropolitan; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's award-winning debut, My Monticello; José Olivarez's Promises of Gold, which was longlisted for a National Book Award for Poetry; The Talk, an award-winning graphic memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell; Reese's Book Club pick Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?; Michaela Cole's Misfits, and Lessons For Survival by writer and climate activist Emily Raboteau.
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Riva Hocherman acquires nonfiction books with strong points of view in the areas of politics and history (American and Middle Eastern in particular), international reportage, and cultural criticism, and also publishes quality fiction and graphic novels. Among her recent projects are A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall, which received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction; Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine; and All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld. Forthcoming books include works by Joe Sacco, Robin D.G. Kelley, Giovanni Russonello, Astra Taylor, and Mark Binelli. Previously, Riva was Associate Publisher at Metropolitan Books, which she joined at its inception in 1995.
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. Her projects include Nafkote Tamirat’s The Parking Lot Attendant, which was a New York Times Notable Book 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, which was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize; and Alison Espach’s The Wedding People, which was a Read with Jenna pick, and a New York Times bestseller.
Associate Editor
Micaela Carr is an associate editor at Holt, acquiring commercial, book club, and literary fiction, and selective narrative non-fiction and memoir that touch on social and cultural topics as well as themes including pop culture analysis, music history, and travel stories. Her taste in fiction is primarily voice-y, character driven narratives with a commercial hook and lyrical prose. She is interested in uplifting and centering POC and LGBTQIA+ voices. Before Holt, she was an assistant editor at Harper, editing women's fiction across the commercial and literary spectrum.