Imprints: Ballantine Books, Bantam, Delacorte, Dell

Mae Donicia Martinez (she/her) is an editor at Ballantine Bantam Dell, an imprint at Penguin Random House. She acquires voice-driven fiction that says something new about the world we live in, contemporary romance with equal heart and spice, speculative/genre bending fiction and fantasy with a love story at its core, as well as dynamic retellings of beloved classic stories or folklore. She prioritizes stories from writers who identify with any of the following: Black, Indigenous, Palestinian, person of color, Latine(x), LGBTQIA+, disabled, and/or neurodivergent. Her list proudly includes Ally North, A. T. Emerald, Ebony LaDelle, Gia de Cadenet, Hazel McBride, Isabelle Taylor, Kate Dylan, Lauren Blackwood, Lilly Lu, Nadia El-Fassi, Shannon Ives, Swati Hegde, and Vera Kurian.

Categories: Romance | Science Fiction & Fantasy | LGBTQIA+ | Gothic & Horror | Magical Realism