Wendy Wong

Wendy Wong (she/her) is an associate editor and assists Jennifer Hershey. She acquires commercial and upmarket fiction ranging from contemporary and historical fiction to romance and stories tinged with speculative elements. She’s also seeking narrative nonfiction that uses a voicey and intimate focal point as a lens for a larger sociocultural deep dive, as well as pop culture and memoir-meets-self-help. Wendy is drawn to emotionally transportive projects—particularly at the intersection of race and class—that explore subcultures, millennial and women’s issues, diaspora, complex relationship dynamics of all stripes, a sense of adventure or the unknown, and all things food. At Ballantine, she has acquired Junie by Erin Crosby-Eckstine, and prior to joining PRH, she acquired/edited titles for Harper such as The First, The Few, The Only by Deepa Purushothaman—a Financial Times business book of the month—and Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill.