Betsy Gleick, VP, Publisher and Editorial Director at Algonquin Books, joined Algonquin in 2016 after working as a magazine writer and editor at Time and People and a stint at Audible; she was named publisher in 2019. She oversees the acquisition and curation of Algonquin’s prize-winning and highly curated list of fiction and narrative nonfiction. As an editor, her projects range from memoirs and journalistic nonfiction to award-winning debut stories and literary fiction, including the recent true crime work TRAILED, by Kathryn Miles, FORAGER, by Michelle Dowd, THE MOUNTAINS SING and DUST CHILD by Nguyen Phan Que Mai, BIG GIRL SMALL TOWN and FACTORY GIRLS by Michelle Gallen, JACKIE & ME by Louis Bayard, and many others. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.