Adrienne Szpyrka will join Running Press Kids as associate editor on July 11. Previously, she was editor at Sky Pony Press.
At Macmillan, Jonathan Hollingsworth has been promoted to ebook channel associate director.
Mark Irwin has joined Insight Editions as senior editor. Previously he was a trading card brand manager at Upper Deck and founded his own startup, Creative Militia.
Aditya Otiv has joined Open Road as social media manager. Prior to joining Open Road, Aditya was junior connections associate at Starcom MediaVest Group.
Editorial director at Johns Hopkins University Press Greg Britton was presented with the Association of American University Presses’ Constituency Award, “for his tireless commitment to the scholarly publishing community,” as director of the University Press of Colorado Darrin Pratt took over leadership of the organization for a one-year term.
Elisabeth Rochau-Shalem was hired in May as a New York-based acquisitions editor for Germany’s Hirmer Publishers. She was associate director, external affairs, at Columbia Universit’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.