SMPG Virtual Conference for Marginalized Voices
Organizers
Monique Patterson

Monique Patterson

Monique Patterson is VP, Editorial Director, Acquisitions Outreach. She publishes commercial fiction and non-fiction.

Tiffany Shelton

Tiffany Shelton

Tiffany Shelton is an editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group acquiring adult and young adult fiction across genres. She typically gravitates towards voice-driven narratives with dynamic storytelling, immersive worlds, and characters to love (or love to hate).

Panelists

*Listed in alphabetical order.

Tim Bartlett

Tim Bartlett

Tim Bartlett is Executive Editor at SMP, where he publishes a wide range of nonfiction books. He worked previously at Basic Books, Random House, and Oxford University Press.

Sarah Cantin

Sarah Cantin

Sarah Cantin is an Executive Editor at SMPG where she publishes upmarket commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. She’s worked with bestselling authors Therese Anne Fowler, Rachel Hawkins, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jennifer Weiner, Carola Lovering, and more.

Mara Delgado-Sanchez

Mara Delgado-Sanchez

Mara Delgado Sánchez is an assistant editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group. She’s actively building her list in both YA and adult. Engaging voice, character-driven stories, and the emotional nuance of relationships are what she looks for in any book she reads.

Anna DeVries

Anna DeVries

Anna deVries is a Senior Editor at St. Martin’s Press, publishing both fiction and nonfiction, with a particular interest in narratives about overlooked stories and experiences from outside the mainstream, cultural history and memoir, narrative science, and literary essays.

My Time Among the Whites by Jenine Capo Crucet
I Believe in Our Power by Raquel Willis (forthcoming)
We Can’t Breathe by Jabari Asim
Michael Flamini

Michael Flamini

Michael Flamini is an executive editor at St. Martin’s Press. He acquires non-fiction only and concentrates on history, politics, biography, memoir, food writing/cookbooks and the arts.

Joel Fotinos

Joel Fotinos

Joel Fotinos is vice-president, founder and editorial director of St. Martin's Essentials, the lifestyle imprint. He was previously a vice-president and publisher of TarcherPerigee at Penguin Random House for 21 years.

Sara Goodman

Sara Goodman

Sara Goodman is the Vice President and Editorial Director of Wednesday Books, a young adult imprint specializing in older-reader, crossover teen fiction.

Keith Kahla

Keith Kahla

Keith Kahla is an Executive Editor and has published a wide range of books in his more than three decades at St. Martin's Press. His current list is primarily fiction, particularly crime and thriller fiction.

Vicki Lame

Vicki Lame

Vicki Lame is an Executive Editor of bestselling adult and young adult fiction for St. Martin's Publishing Group and Wednesday Books. She likes to say she edits books about big feelings. Vicki currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Hannah O’Grady

Hannah O’Grady

Hannah O’Grady works on a range of fiction and nonfiction, from cozy mysteries and thrillers to cultural criticism and investigative journalism. Across all genres, work with a social justice bent and books that highlight marginalized voices are of particular interest.

Monique Patterson

Monique Patterson

Monique Patterson is VP, Editorial Director, Acquisitions Outreach. She publishes commercial fiction and non-fiction.

Hannah Phillips

Hannah Phillips

Hannah Phillips has been an associate editor at St. Martin’s Press since 2019, having previously worked at Hachette Book Group. Her list focuses on issues-driven nonfiction that sparks conversations and sharpens our understanding of society.

Tiffany Shelton

Tiffany Shelton

Tiffany Shelton is an editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group acquiring adult and young adult fiction across genres. She typically gravitates towards voice-driven narratives with dynamic storytelling, immersive worlds, and characters to love (or love to hate).

Moderators
Erica Martirano

Erica Martirano

Erica Martirano has worked at St. Martin’s Publishing Group for six years, currently in the role of Director of Marketing and Multicultural Outreach. She directly manages the marketing campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors Kristin Hannah, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen, Sally Hepworth, and others. Additionally she handles all DEIB marketing outreach & plan review for the marketing team, working to ensure equity across all SMPG publications.

Martin Quinn

Martin Quinn

Martin Quinn has worked at Macmillan for 19 years, currently in the role of Director, Marketing and Bookseller Strategy for St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books. In 2008 he was awarded the Barnes and Noble Rep of the Year award while working in the sales department. Before Macmillan, Martin was the book product manager for the Virgin Megastore chain, he worked for Reading Rainbow in the ‘90s, and as a bookseller at B&N and several independents.