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Pat Strachan will retire effective March 2022, after joining the house as a founding editor in 2014. Strachan started her career as an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1971. She says, “I will be forever grateful to our publisher, Andy Hunter, for asking me to help establish Catapult, which he has since developed into an award-winning publisher of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. I will dearly miss working with my colleagues and writers there.”

Ashley Hewlett has been promoted to assistant director of publicity.

Brennin Cummings has been promoted to senior marketing manager.

Jessica Wade has been promoted to executive editor.

Sarah Blumenstock has been promoted to senior editor.

Liz Sellers has been promoted to assistant editor.

Sareer Khader has been promoted to assistant editor.

Lauren Clauss has been promoted to editor.

Ray Arjune has joined as publicity manager. Arjune was previously at Bloomsbury USA.

Theresa DeLucci has joined as associate marketing director.  She was previously senior associate marketing director for Tor, Forge and Nightfire Books.

Brann Garvey has joined as as senior designer. He was previously at Capstone Publishing.

Maeve MacLysaght joins as literary agent.

Kari Sutherland has joined as agent specializing in middle grade and young adult fiction. She was previously with Bradford Literary,

Jade Wong-Baxter has been promoted to agent.

Sulamita Garbuz has been promoted to agent.

Rachel Petty will join as agent, heading up the children’s and young adult list. She has been editorial director at Macmillan UK Children’s, where she has worked for the past 14 years.