People 4/7

Editorial director Tracy Sherrod “has decided to leave the organization to pursue a new endeavor” after nearly 10 years there, departing April 11, Judith Curr wrote in a memo. “She will be greatly missed.”

Curr notes, “We have begun a search to work toward filling her role, and in the meantime, I will work closely with the Amistad team to continue supporting their fantastic publishing program.”

Danielle Imperiale becomes design manager, marketing.

Kaitlin Loss moves up to subsidiary rights manager.

At Farrar, Straus Children’s, Joy Peskin has been promoted to executive editorial director.

At Odd Dot, Justin Krasner has been promoted to executive editor.

At Feiwel and Friends, Emily Settle becomes editor and Rachel Diebel moves up to associate editor.

Nicole De Las Heras has been promoted to executive art director.

Elizabeth Tardiff has been promoted to assistant art director.

Jan Gerardi has been promoted to assistant art director.

Brittany Ramirez has been promoted to junior designer.

April Ward has been promoted to executive art director, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult.

Jinna Shin has been promoted to associate art director, interiors and paperbacks.

Kathleen Morandini has joined as children’s assistant school and library marketing manager.

Heather Musika has been promoted to director of national accounts, with responsibility for managing national bookstore chain and jobber business for Simon & Schuster’s adult and audio publishing programs.

Lexi Dumas has been promoted to director of national accounts, with responsibility for managing business with Readerlink and other distributors, mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, airports, supermarkets and drugstores for Simon & Schuster’s adult and audio publishing programs.

Bhavna Chauhan has been promoted to editorial director, commercial publishing.

John Martz, currently art director at Tundra, will be transitioning into the part-time role of senior designer in August to dedicate more time to his work as an author/illustrator and cartoonist. He will continue to design and art direct titles as well as sourcing artists for the publisher.

Bharti Bedi will join Tundra as a production editor, starting on June 6. Bedi is currently reprint production assistant at Penguin Random House Canada.