About

Zando’s founder and leader is Molly Stern. Molly previously led Penguin Random House’s Crown as SVP & Publisher. At Crown, she launched Hogarth, a literary imprint conceived in collaboration with Chatto in the UK, which launched the bestselling, prize-winning work of Sally Rooney, Anthony Marra, Han Kang, and Herman Koch in the US. In partnership with actor and entrepreneur Sarah Jessica Parker, Molly launched the SJP for Hogarth imprint. Over the course of her career, Molly has published numerous literary prize-winners, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and nonfiction, as well as genre-defining bestsellers such as Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One, and Andy Weir’s The Martian. She was also the editor of Michelle Obama’s Becoming, the best-selling memoir of all time.

Emily Bell leads Zando’s editorial team. Prior to joining Zando, Emily spent a decade at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, most recently as an Executive Editor and Director of the paperback original line, FSG Originals. Emily has edited and published best-selling and award-winning fiction and nonfiction, including Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women, Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League, and Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley, selected as a New York Times Best Book of the Year for 2020. Prior to her tenure at FSG, Emily worked at Riverhead Books.

Tiffany Liao leads ​Zando’s Young Readers initiative. Prior to joining Zando, Tiffany ​worked at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, where she edited the #1 New York Times bestsellers Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, and its sequel Children of Virtue and Vengeance. She’s had the honor and joy of working with authors such as Dhonielle Clayton, Henry Lien, Lesley Livingston, Goldy Moldavsky, Tochi Onyebuchi, Margaret Owen, Jenn Reese, and Queer Eye star Karamo Brown.

Prior to joining Zando, Quynh Do spent eight years at W. W. Norton and two years at Basic Books, specializing in serious nonfiction for a general readership. She has edited and published titles such as Lydia Denworth’s Friendship, Hannah Fry’s Hello World, Alberto Cairo’s How Charts Lie, and Zach St. George’s The Journeys of Trees. Quynh has also served as lead nonfiction editor for award-winning literary magazine American Chordata.

Sareena Kamath comes to Zando from Little, Brown/Mulholland, which she joined in 2018. While there, she worked on a variety of projects including Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill, Adrian McKinty’s The Chain, and Elin Hilderbrand’s Summer of ’69. At Zando, she’ll pursue genre-bending fiction and look for stories that shed light on underrepresented perspectives in the genre fiction landscape.

Prior to Zando, Caolinn Douglas worked at Little, Brown Book Group as Marketing and Publicity Trainee, before joining Bookouture in April 2019 as Editorial Trainee and then becoming Publishing Executive. In this role, she worked on a number of bestselling fiction titles, including Date Night by Samantha Hayes and The Italian Villa by Daniela Sacerdoti, and was a foundational member of their Diversity and Inclusion team.

Maya Raiford Cohen is a recent graduate of Yale University where she majored in Ethnicity, Race and Migration. Prior to Zando, she worked at Yale University Press as an Acquisitions and Editorial Intern.

Sarah Schneider has been in independent publishing for nine years. She started her career at The Experiment, where she worked in publicity, sales, art, and production. Prior to joining Zando, she was the Production Manager at Restless Books, a nonprofit publisher of literature in translation. She holds a Master’s in Comparative Literature from the University of Amsterdam.

Prior to joining Zando, Nathalie led brand partner marketing at Urban Outfitters, focusing on influencer-led storytelling to drive conversion for brands like Nike and Levi’s through original content and live events. Nathalie also spent time at Crown + Conquer, consulting for Beats by Dre on multiple activations geared towards Gen Z audiences, and at Paper Magazine, developing event and influencer programs for American Express, Target and Google. Nathalie is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course and started her career at Oxford University Press.

Chloe Texier-Rose began her career at Rubenstein Communications, one of the leading strategic communications firms in the country. At Rubenstein, Chloe worked on the team executing communications and publicity initiatives for the firm’s entertainment clients, including Paramount Pictures, HBO, TriBeCa Film Festival, Sony Pictures Entertainment, AMC, and Refinery29. After Rubenstein, Chloe held positions at HarperCollins, The Experiment Publishing, and most recently, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where she spent four years leading promotional campaigns for many of FSG’s best-selling and award-winning authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold, Laura van den Berg, Sheila Heti, Jeff VanderMeer, James Ivory, Edouard Louis, Sarah Schulman, and New York Times bestsellers Tegan and Sara. She is a graduate of McGill University and was born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Prior to joining Zando, Sierra Stovall spent over a decade working in the Rights Departments of some of the most prominent publishing houses. Most recently, she worked for Sourcebooks where she ran the rights business across all adult and children’s imprints, negotiating international and domestic licenses for New York Times bestselling authors including Layla F. Saad, Kristina McMorris, Raj Haldar, and Marieke Nijkamp, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling How to Catch series. There she also represented the company at the Frankfurt, London, Bologna, and Shanghai book fairs. Before joining Sourcebooks, Sierra worked at W. W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, and Penguin Group where she had the honor of licensing rights for bestselling authors such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Neil Gaiman, Nora Roberts, Rainbow Rowell, Louise Penny, Walter Mosley, Lisa Scottoline, and Brandon Sanderson.

Dennis Lee joins Zando with over 18 years of publishing experience, where he most recently was VP Finance, Strategy & Operations at HarperCollins. He assisted the company in the integration of HMH Books & Media into the HarperCollins ecosystem. Prior to Harper, he assisted the President of Books & Media at HMH to develop overall business strategy; managed the capital & financial planning process; provided financial business plans for building an Audio studio and created financial models in order to help the sales team negotiate financial and operational terms for large retail accounts such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Readerlink, and Ingram. Prior to joining HMH, he was Vice President of Business Management & Finance at Penguin Random House and also held positions at Simon & Schuster and Marvel Enterprises, Inc. Dennis received his M.B.A. from CUNY Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business.

Andrew Rein joins Zando after 13 years at Penguin Random House, where he most recently was Vice President, Director of Mass Merch National Accounts, including Walmart and Target, and was responsible for sales and strategy across over 100 imprints. He partnered with retailers on distinctive promotional models designed to maximize sales of bestselling authors such as Barack and Michelle Obama, John Grisham, and Chrissy Teigen, as well as publishing brands, like Game of Thrones and Star Wars. He specializes in designing custom, high-impact approaches to book sales, marketing, promotion, and branding with national retail partners.