FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Marlena Bittner, VP, Executive Director of Publicity (646) 307-5078/[email protected]

Megan Lynch to Join Flatiron Books as SVP, Publisher

(October 17, 2019- New York, NY) Bob Miller, president of Flatiron Books, announced today that Megan Lynch will join Flatiron Books as Senior Vice President, Publisher, starting on November 4.

For the past three years, Lynch has been Vice President and Editorial Director of Ecco at HarperCollins, where she published the million-copy bestseller The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney along with such authors as Ben Fountain, Elizabeth McCracken, Laura Zigman and Nell Zink.

Before working at Ecco, Lynch spent eleven years at Riverhead Books, publishing such acclaimed authors as Sarah Waters, Carrie Brownstein, Helen Oyeyemi and Emma Straub; her authors have won numerous awards including a Whiting Award, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Miller said of Lynch, “Megan is one of the most accomplished editors in our business, with an unerring eye for quality. We’re beyond thrilled to have her join us at Flatiron Books.”

Lynch said, “I’m incredibly excited to join Flatiron’s talented team, and to contribute to and help shape a dynamic list I’ve been admiring since its phenomenal launch.”

Flatiron Books is a division of Macmillan. For more information please contact Flatiron Books Executive Publicity Director, Marlena Bittner at (646) 307-5078/[email protected].

About Macmillan Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world. Macmillan publishes a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, St. Martin's Press and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan Publishers is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.