People 10/5

Jen Worick has been promoted to publisher, overseeing adult publishing. Jill Saginario has been named acquisitions editor and Alison Keefe has been named design & production manager.

Leslie Davisson has been hired as director, special sales and Sandy Frank has been hired as designer, children’s publishing.

Alison Fisher has been promoted to executive editor. Peter Lutjen has been promoted to creative director, Jamie Stafford-Hill has been promoted to senior associate art director, and Lesley Worrell has been promoted to associate art director. Rebecca Naimon has been promoted to publishing operations coordinator. Julia Bergen has been promoted to marketing manager.

Hannah Nesbat has been promoted to senior manager, media and audience intelligence.

Jennifer Lipman joins as manager, corporate & premium sales.

Michelle Herrera Mulligan has been promoted to executive editor at Atria.

Julianna Haubner has been promoted to editor at Avid Reader Press.

Khari Dawkins has been promoted to assistant editor, reporting to Bill Thomas.

Jenny Xu moves over from Mariner as poetry editor, Ecco and editor, Harper. She oversees Ecco’s poetry list and acquires nonfiction for Harper.

Kate Meltzer has been promoted to senior editor at Roaring Brook Press.

Taylor Pitts has been promoted to senior production editor and Arik Harden has been promoted to assistant managing editor.

Jamie Birkett joins as commissioning editor for both imprints, acquiring works of smart thinking, neuroscience, psychology and economics. He was previously at Bloomsbury Continuum.

At Penguin Life, Anya Hayes joins as commissioning editor and Amy McWalters has been temporarily promoted to acting commissioning editor, both covering editorial director Emily Robertson’s maternity leave.

Lydia Yadi has been promoted to senior commissioning editor at Penguin Business.

All report to publisher Martina O’Sullivan.