New Editorial Director at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, excerpt

Joy Peskin.
By Sally Lodge

Jan 06, 2012

Peskin to Head FSG Books for Young Readers

Joy Peskin will join Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group on February 6 as division v-p and editorial director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers. She will report to Simon Boughton, senior v-p and publisher of FSG Books for Young Readers and Roaring Brook Press.

Peskin has worked at Viking Children’s Books since 2003, most recently as associate publisher. Prior to that, she was an editor at Puffin from 1997 to 2001 and then spent two years at Scholastic before rejoining the Penguin family.