Jamia Wilson
Jamia Wilson
Jamia Wilson
Vice President and Executive Editor
Imprint: Harmony, Rodale, Convergent
Jamia Wilson is a Vice President and Executive Editor acquiring across Harmony, Rodale, and Convergent, which she joined in October 2025 after four years at Random House. Before PRH, she served as Executive Director and Publisher of the Feminist Press at CUNY, where she built a list that earned Lambda Literary and PEN Faulkner nominations and Whiting, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle, and PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel awards. She is also the author of several award-winning books for adults and children, including Together We Rise and Young, Gifted, and Black.
Jamia is passionate about narratives that reimagine power and rewrite the rules. She acquires books that inspire empathy, transformation, and action across narrative nonfiction, memoir, social justice, pop culture, health, wellness, mysticism, progressive spirituality, and more.
Current and forthcoming authors include Penny Abeywardena, Ruthie Ackerman, Aiko Bethea, Mia Birdsong, LeVar Burton, Alexis Clark, Vanessa Daniel, Whiting Award winner Caitlin Dickerson, Dr. Kemi Doll, PEN Open Book Award and Lambda Literary Award winner and Chautauqua finalist Hafizah Geter, Prentis Hemphill, New York Times #1 bestseller Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Piper Kerman, Ava Lee, Rev. James Lawson Jr., Donal Logue, The Lucas Bros, Ira Madison III, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Alysia Reiner, Wendy K. Smith, Gloria Steinem, Jessica Tarlov, Meggan Watterson, Serena Williams, Emily Yellin, Chantale Zuzi, and more.
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