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Executive director Philip Himberg will step down on December 31. He joined in June 2019 and led a “deep multiyear dive into embracing the tenets of equity and parity throughout the organization.” Himberg said, “I will be leaving with a deep appreciation for the transformative idea and inspirational place that is MacDowell and with pride for what we as a team have accomplished in these unimagined years. I have tremendous optimism for the leadership role that MacDowell is poised to continue to play among artist residencies.”

Book review editor Kim Hubbard has left the magazine. Sandra Sobieraj is handling the Books page until a replacement is hired.

Karyn Marcus has joined as executive editor reporting to vp, editorial director of nonfiction Colin Dickerman. She was most recently executive editor at Gallery.

Dorielys Cruz has been promoted to assistant editor at Little Simon.

Vanessa Giovino will join Kids Can Press as operations and digital assets coordinator, starting August 8 and reports to operations manager Amelie Roberge. She was previously in the business operations, content QA department at Kobo.

Dana Murphy will join as literary agent on October 11. Murphy was previously an agent with The Book Group.

Daniela Schlingmann Literary Scouting will be scouting for Grupo Planeta in Spain, Portugal and Latin America (excluding Brazil) in the US market as well.