Tara Parsons is the Vice President, Deputy Publisher for the East Coast imprints of the HarperOne Group at HarperCollins Publishers. She is responsible for overseeing the business office of the Publisher and the marketing departments and branding for three of the HarperOne Group’s imprints: Amistad, HarperCollins Español, and HarperVia. In addition, she acquires and edits her own list of titles. She currently serves on the Board of Words Without Borders and works as an Adjunct Professor at NYU. Prior to HarperCollins, Parsons worked as Editor-in-Chief of Touchstone Books at Simon & Schuster and Editorial Director of Fiction at Amazon Publishing.