Erin Kane is the Senior Publishing Manager at Ballantine and assists Kara Welsh and Kim Hovey. She acquires inspirational self-help and memoir, pop-psychology, true crime, and upmarket women’s fiction. Titles on her list include the memoir The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting by actress and activist Evanna Lynch and the upcoming Raising Hell, Living Well, a cultural criticism and guide to living with intention by Jessica Elefante. She loves to see lenses that open up new ways of approaching the world in both fiction and nonfiction. After a brief run with Scholastic, she joined the Ballantine team in 2017.