Cindy Spiegel is the founder and co-CEO of Spiegel and Grau, which is in its fifth year as an independent publisher. Previously she was co-publisher of Spiegel & Grau at Random House, and before that she was a founding editor of Riverhead Books and later co-publisher of Riverhead, with Julie Grau, with whom she went on to found Spiegel & Grau. She has launched the literary careers of writers including James McBride, Khaled Hosseini, Shelley Read, Bryan Stevenson, Chang-rae Lee, Gary Shteyngart, Alex Garland, Sana Krasikov, Philipp Meyer, Kathleen Norris, ZZ Packer, Domenica Ruta, and Danzy Senna and has edited bestselling books by Bruce Holsinger, Yuval Noah Harari, Harold Bloom, Steven Rinella, Dan Pink, Sara Gruen, Yann Martel, and Anne Lamott, among many others. She sits on the board of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and on the advisory board of Columbia Global Reports.