Jacinta O’Halloran

Jacinta O’Halloran is a new editor at Random House Worlds, where licensed properties she works on include Bridgerton, Squid Game, Garfield, Marvel, and Witcher. Prior to joining the RHW team, Jacinta helmed a cookbook brand partnership with SharkNinja at Callisto Media, and developed everything from bird-watching journals and Amigurumi craft books to puzzles and recipe card decks. Earlier in her career, Jacinta worked with a book packager to create illustrated gift books and Art Of books for Disney Publishing. Jacinta has spent most of her two-decade-full publishing career in the travel space, hop-skip-jumping the world as a writer and an editor. She is tremendously proud of her Pandemic baby, Fodor’s Bucket List USA, and still contributes to Fodor’s New York City as a writer. She lives in Manhattan, where she spends her free time pounding the pavement, vetting restaurants and hotels, and generally looking up.