Our Staff


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BOB MILLER, President and Publisher

Bob Miller founded Hyperion for Disney in 1990 and was its publisher until 2008; he started Flatiron Books for Macmillan in 2013. He began his career at St. Martin’s Press and has also worked at Delacorte Press, HarperCollins, and Workman. Key titles Miller has acquired for Flatiron to date include What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey, The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost, Promise Me, Dad by President Joe Biden, and The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch.

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MEgan Lynch, Senior Vice president and publisher

Megan Lynch has served as Publisher since 2019 and acquires a broad range of fiction and select nonfiction. 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. Among the books she's edited are the #1 New York Times bestsellers Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry, Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, and Beyond the Story by BTS and Myeongseok Kang, as well as the bestsellers 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, The Vacationers by Emma Straub and The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. Among the other authors she’s worked with are Ben Fountain, Emma Rosenblum, Alissa Nutting, Patrick DeWitt, 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.

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Marlena Bittner, Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity

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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Nancy Trypuc, Vice President, Executive Director of Marketing

Nancy Trypuc officially joined Flatiron Books in January 2017. She directs a dedicated marketing team of four and has overseen the campaigns of the imprint's bestselling fiction, notably Liane Moriarty, Jane Harper, Leigh Bardugo, and Chandler Baker, as well as a variety of nonfiction bestsellers from Oprah Winfrey and Vice President Joe Biden to James Comey and Dr. Michael Greger. Prior to that, Nancy was Vice President, Creative Services at St. Martin’s Press, where she worked on high-impact campaigns for Janet Evanovich, Augusten Burroughs, Kristin Hannah, and Louise Penny. Nancy also worked in copywriter roles at Penguin and Pocket Books and was part of the advertising and promotion department at Berkley.

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Malati Chavali, Senior vice president, Associate Publisher

Malati Chavali joined the team in August 2020. As Associate Publisher, Malati helps lead our overall publishing strategy at Flatiron Books with an eye toward balancing our list, setting financial goals for the near and long-term, and ensuring our marketing and publicity efforts are in sync with the needs of our sales team. She is also a member of Macmillan's D&I leadership council and part of Macmillan's newly created trade management committee. Prior to her role at Flatiron Books, Malati was an SVP of Publishing Strategy for Macmillan. She joined Macmillan in 2011 as our eBook Channel head and later led the creation of the sales strategies department, becoming a vice president and key member of the sales management team.

julie will, Senior vice president, Publishing Director

Julie Will joined Flatiron Books in 2023. In her role as SVP, Publishing Director, she acquires and oversees strategy for the nonfiction list. Previously, she has held editorial roles at Random House, Rodale Books, and HarperCollins, where she served as cofounder and VP, Editorial Director of one of the industry’s leading wellness imprints, Harper Wave, for 11 years. She has published dozens of New York Times bestselling and award-winning titles, including several #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her authors at Wave included Dr. Becky Kennedy, Dr. Nicole LePera, Cameron Diaz, Dr. Steven Gundry, Jessica Bennett, Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Mona Delahooke, Angela Garbes, Julia Turshen, The Pollan Family, Texas Monthly magazine, Rocco DiSpirito, and Garden & Gun magazine. At Flatiron she is looking forward to publishing upcoming works from Brooke Shields, Dr. Dale Bredesen, former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler, Wharton economist Corinne Low, sex educator Cory Silverberg, and more. Julie is excited by projects that inspire, uplift, and empower readers, and is particularly invested in publishing women's voices. 

Zachary Wagman, Vice President and Editorial Director

Zachary Wagman joined Flatiron in 2020. His authors include novelists Jason Rekulak, Christine Mangan, Erin Young, Alex Segura, Lauren Nossett, Adam Sternbergh, and James A. McLaughlin. His nonfiction list includes Texas politician and activist Beto O'Rourke; Politico reporter and MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire; CNN's Abby Phillip; journalist Marie Brenner; and former Washington Post editor Marty Baron. Before Flatiron, he worked at Ecco where some of his titles included Dennis Lehane’s Since We Fell; Kevin Wilson’s Nothing to See Here; Jonathan Lethem’s The Feral Detective; as well as books by Steph Cha, David Koepp, Sarah Weinman, and MSNBC's Steve Kornacki.

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CHRISTINE KOPPRASCHExecutive Editor

Christine Kopprasch is mostly looking for suspense, mystery, and thrillers for Flatiron. Her authors at Flatiron include Jane Harper (New York Times, Indie, and #1 international bestseller The Dry was chosen as Amazon’s #1 Best Mystery & Thriller of the Year); S. A. Cosby (Blacktop Wasteland and NYT bestseller Razorblade Tears were both winners of the ITW Award and chosen as Amazon’s #1 Best Mystery & Thriller of the Year); Chandler Baker (NYT bestseller Whisper Network was a Reese Book Club pick, The Husbands was a GMA Book Club pick); and Alice Feeney (NYT bestseller Rock Paper Scissors was a Book of the Month Club pick). Upcoming novels include Alice Feeney’s Daisy Darker, Jane Harper’s Exiles, and Kate Alice Marshall’s adult debut What Lies in the Woods. Kopprasch was formerly an editor at Crown, where her acquisitions included Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s NYT bestseller Bittersweet, Nina George’s NYT and #1 Indie bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, and Han Kang’s Man Booker International winner The Vegetarian.

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Nadxieli Nieto, EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Nadxieli Nieto is looking for upmarket and literary fiction, YA, and select nonfiction, with a focus on work by Latinx and BIPoC. Her authors at Flatiron include María Amparo Escandón, John Manuel Arias, Rasheed Newson, Wendy Chin-Tanner, Erica Berry, and Ben Austen. She is drawn to innovative, language-driven work in fiction, and idea-driven, researched nonfiction on culture, feminism, immigration, and the environment. Authors she’s previously edited and published include Carmen Maria Machado, Lilliam Rivera, Yuri Herrera, Danielle Evans, Leslie Jamison, Laura van den Berg, Rion Amilcar Scott, Stephen Graham Jones, Helen Phillips, and Amber Sparks. Nieto was previously Director of the Literary Awards Program at PEN America, and is on the board of Latinx in Publishing.

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CAROLINE BLEEKE, executive Editor

Caroline Bleeke publishes literary and upmarket fiction and select nonfiction at Flatiron Books, with an emphasis on underrepresented voices, historical fiction, clever retellings, family sagas, coming-of-age stories, innovative structure and style, writing with a strong sense of place, and lots of heart. Her authors at Flatiron include Angie Cruz, Saraciea Fennell, Nina LaCour, Charlotte McConaghy, Margarita Montimore, Melinda Moustakis, Neel Patel, Bushra Rehman, Jennifer Saint, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, and many others. Originally from St. Louis, she began her career at Alfred A. Knopf and holds a Master’s degree in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature.

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BRYN CLARK, executive Editor 

Bryn Clark is an Executive Editor at Flatiron Books working on memoir, political, inspirational, and narrative nonfiction. She is especially drawn to titles highly influenced by the author’s own life experience, with a particular interest in strong female or underrepresented voices. She has worked on the New York Times bestsellers Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, Unbound by ‘me too.’ founder Tarana Burke, The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs, Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior, and What Happened to You? by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey, among others. Clark’s list also includes the National Book Award longlist recipient Is Rape a Crime? by Michelle Bowdler and the forthcoming debut narrative nonfiction book on alligator poaching and conservation in the Everglades by National Geographic journalist Rebecca Renner. She recently acquired Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Allison Russell's debut memoir Outside Child and Oscar-nominee Elliot Page's memoir Pageboy

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Lee Oglesby, Senior Editor

Lee Oglesby joined Flatiron Books in July 2021 and is acquiring idea-driven nonfiction. She’s drawn to compelling books that make unexpected connections in science, the environment, food and agriculture, health and wellbeing, and transformational justice. Previously, she was the managing editor at Milkweed Editions, and at Oxford University Press she worked as a developmental editor. Authors she has published include Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Ada Limón. She began her career in medical publishing.

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Kukuwa Ashun, Assistant editor

Kukuwa Ashun (Koo-Koo-Wa, A-shun) is an assistant 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 İnci Atrek and Ruthvika Rao. Prior to joining the team in 2020, Kukuwa worked with Writopia Lab, One Story Inc., the National Book Foundation, and was an interviews editor for NYU's Washington Square Review.

maxine charles, assistant editor

Prior to joining Flatiron in 2020, Maxine Charles was an editorial intern at literary agencies Writers House and Aevitas Creative Management. She has a passion for genre fiction and uplifting marginalized voices. She gravitates toward thought-provoking fantasy, science fiction, horror, and thrillers that use genre elements to present social commentary and subvert expectations. Her authors at Flatiron include Yume Kitasei and Amy Avery.

Sydney Jeon, Assistant Editor

Sydney Jeon is building a list of upmarket and literary fiction with a particular interest in voice-driven narratives about coming of age, identity, and diaspora, especially stories from and about women of color and marginalized voices. Fiction with absurd, speculative, and horror elements are a plus, and she loves writing that is visceral, vulnerable, and poignant. A graduate of UCLA, she is originally from Los Angeles.

mary retta, editorial Assistant

Mary Retta is interested in books that explore identity, pop culture, friendship, and music. Before starting at Flatiron she was a journalist and essayist for Teen Vogue, Pitchfork, The Nation, and elsewhere. She also enjoys reading speculative and literary fiction that is strongly grounded in transformative politics.

Kate Lucas, editorial Assistant

Before joining Flatiron in 2023, Kate Lucas was part of the international sales team at Ingram Content Group, selling their distribution clients into Latin America and the Caribbean. As an editorial assistant, she is passionate about exploring uncharted niches and uplifting underrepresented voices. She is interested in linguistics, pop culture, memoir, and narrative nonfiction, as well as quirky, offbeat fiction with a strong sense of place. Originally from Central Florida, she is now based in Hoboken.