In the wake of the May restructure at Penguin Random House's Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group that resulted in the departures of Alfred A. Knopf publisher Reagan Arthur and Pantheon Schocken publisher Lisa Lucas, KDPG has announced a number of consequential changes at the Knopf imprint.
Gabrielle Brooks has been named associate publisher. Brooks, who has been at KDPG for more than 30 years, was most recently VP and associate publisher at Vintage and of the KDPG backlist. Prior to that, she was VP and executive publicity director for KDPG and special projects. Brooks will report to Jordan Pavlin, who was elevated to role of publisher and editor-in-chief at Knopf in the restructure.
Jenny Jackson has been promoted to VP and editorial director of fiction. She was previously VP and executive editor. Jackson has been with KDPG for 22 years, and her most notable authors include Chris Bohjalian, Peter Heller, Kevin Kwan, Emily St. John Mandel, Cormac McCarthy, Courtney Sullivan, and Gabrielle Zevin. In her new role, she will form a core part of the Knopf leadership team and oversee the entire Knopf fiction list, working closely with Pavlin on acquisitions and strategy.
Lexy Bloom, executive editor at Knopf and editorial director at Knopf Cooks, has been promoted to VP. Bloom has been with KDPG since 2004. At Knopf, she has established a focus on international literature, shepherding works by such authors as Haruki Murakami, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Yoko Ogawa, while at Knopf Cooks, she has worked with such cookbook and food authors as Deb Perelman, the Julia Child Foundation, Melissa Weller, and Deborah Madison.
Deborah Garrison will now work exclusively for Knopf, continuing in her dual roles as executive editor and poetry editor at the imprint. Garrison previously edited fiction and nonfiction for Pantheon and Schocken as well as Knopf; she will now acquire books solely for Knopf.
Maris Dyer has been promoted to editor. She was previously associate editor, having joined Knopf in 2019 as editorial assistant to Andrew Miller and Jenny Jackson. Prior to that, she was a literary agent assistant for Amanda “Binky” Urban and Molly Atlas at CAA. Her list includes such authors as Rayne Fisher Quann, Ana Karina Zatarain, Annakeara Stinson, and Lisa Smith.
Tiara Sharma has been promoted to assistant editor. Sharma began their career at PRH in 2020, working with the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau as an assistant, then shifting to an editorial position at Knopf in 2022. Sharma will continue to report to Jenny Jackson and Emily Cunningham.
