Natalie Hallak

Natalie Hallak is an Executive Editor at Ballantine Books. Previously, she worked at Atria, where she published bestsellers such as The Cloisters by Katy Hays, Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling, and The Breakaway by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner. She began her editorial career at Park Row Books, where she acquired and edited titles such as The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, and The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim. She has a passion for finding novels that appeal to the commercial and literary fiction readership across genres—historical, book club, upmarket women’s fiction, speculative, and suspense/thrillers—as well as select memoirs. She especially loves mainstream novels with edge, stories that are wholly transportive and keep her up reading late into the night.