Helen Atsma (she/her) joined Ecco in December of 2019 as VP, Editorial Director. She oversees the Ecco editorial team and primarily acquires literary and book club fiction, along with memoir and some narrative nonfiction. The writers she works with include Rumaan Alam, Nicole Chung, Patrick deWitt, Andrew J. Graff, Juliet Grames, Elizabeth McCracken, Ivy Pochoda, Anthony Veasna So, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Kevin Wilson, and Laura Zigman, among others. Previously, she was Editorial Director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and she has also worked at Grand Central Publishing, Henry Holt, and Little, Brown.
