Natalie Hallak

Executive Editor

Imprints: Ballantine Books, Bantam, Delacorte, Dell

Natalie Hallak is an Executive Editor at Ballantine Books, where she has published bestsellers including Conform by Ariel Sullivan and Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores. She looks for standout voices in book club-ready, genre-bending fiction, stories that are wholly transportive and keep her up reading late into the night. Previously, she was an editor at Atria/S&S and Park Row Books/HarperCollins, where her list comprised of New York Times bestsellers and major media book club picks, including The Cloisters by Katy Hays, The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim, and Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling.