New York Writers Workshop Non-Fiction Pitch Conference Former Editors

Molly Boyle is an assistant editor at Bantam Dell, where she works with Kate Miciak on a list of authors that include New York Times bestsellers Lee Child, Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter. She acquires commercial fiction and mysteries, particularly for women, as well as memoir, narrative, and pop culture nonfiction, and has a particular fondness for offbeat and dark edges. She began her publishing career at NAL/Penguin.

Julie Doughty is an editor at Dutton, a division of Penguin. She specializes in commercial and literary fiction, particularly for women, as well as memoir and pop culture nonfiction. Her projects include My Revolutions by award winning author Hari Kunzru, the New York Times bestseller Waking with Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey, Inside Inside by ''Inside the Actors Studio'' host James Lipton, the National Jewish Book Award-winning anthology The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt, the gothic thriller Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert, and a bestselling series of Sudoku puzzle books.

She has worked in publishing for twelve years and was previously an associate editor at Vintage Books, where she developed paperbacks for authors such as Philip Roth, Oliver Sacks, Richard Ford, Ann Packer, and Richard Russo.

Dana Edwin Isaacson is a Senior Editor with the Random House Publishing Group, where he edits both fiction and non-fiction. He has worked as an abridger, a writer and a literary agent. He has also been an editor at ReganBooks, St. Martin’s Press and Pocket Books. Recent non-fiction titles he has worked on include NOBODIES: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy by John Bowe, WRESTLING WITH GRAVY: A Life, with Food by Jonathan Reynolds, and THE DEVIL’S GENTLEMAN: Power, Privilege and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century by Harold Schechter.

David Moldawer is an associate editor at St. Martin's Press, where he acquires and edits nonfiction books. His published titles include RULE THE WEB by Mark Frauenfelder and THE NEW YORK TIMES GUIDE TO ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, 2nd Edition. Upcoming titles include THE MAD FISHERMAN by Charlie Moore with Charles Salzberg, THE INDIE BAND SURVIVAL GUIDE by Jason Feehan and Randy Chertkow of the band Beatnik Turtle, LAWYER BOY, a memoir of law school by Rick Lax, and PRINCE, the first definitive biography, by Ronin Ro. David lives in New York City. For more information, visit his personal website at Moldawer.com.

A graduate of New York University, Denise has been in the publishing industry for seventeen years and is currently Executive Editor at the Berkley Publishing Group. Although she acquires both fiction and nonfiction, 90% of her list is nonfiction. She works within all genres, including narrative nonfiction, memoir, self-help/motivational, personal finance, health/well-being, and spirituality. She has worked with bestselling authors such as Don Piper, psychic-medium John Edward, minister T. D. Jakes, and financial expert Julie Stav.

Julie Will is an Editor at Rodale and spent five years at Random House with Crown Books and Bantam Dell. She acquires and edits in the categories of health and wellness, science, psychology, self-help, mind/body, relationship, and memoir. Her authors include award-winning journalist Brooke Foster, NYU's Director of Fetal Medicine Dr. Bruce Young, and World Record Holder Kimi Puntillo. Forthcoming titles include Ellie Fisher's DATING FOR DADS, Peter Bentley, Ph.D's THE SCIENCE OF MISHAPS, THE BIGGEST LOSER SUCCESS SECRETS (based on the NBC show), and NFL Star Tony Gonzalez's diet and fitness book.