Imprints: Ballantine Books, Bantam, Delacorte, Dell

Sara Weiss (she/her) is the Editorial Director for Nonfiction at Ballantine Books, where she focuses mostly on nonfiction, while also publishing select fiction titles. She is interested in voice-driven, widely accessible nonfiction that is engaged with pop culture; i.e., books that are in conversation with the most urgent issues of the day (whether they be ones of identity, politics, art and entertainment, science, or even food!). She’s been privileged to publish bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Coco Mellors, Linda Holmes, Emily Nagoski, Hadley Vlahos, Stephanie Foo, Annie Hartnett, R. Eric Thomas, and Lauren Graham. Prior to Ballantine, she worked for many years at Grand Central Publishing.

Categories: Biography & Memoir  |  Health & Wellness  |  Humor  |  Literary Fiction  |  Narrative Nonfiction  |  Pop Culture  |  Science, Nature & Technology  | Women’s Fiction