PETER JOSEPH (HE/HIM)

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Prior to launching Hanover Square Press, editorial director Peter Joseph worked at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. Over the years he has worked with bestselling and notable authors such as Dan Abrams, Peter Ackroyd, Richard A. Clarke, Michel Faber, Dario Fo, Greg Graffin, Fred D. Gray, Karine Jean-Pierre, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Barbara Leaming, Robert Littell, Henry Marsh, Madeline Martin, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mallory O'Meara, Steve Reich, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rev. Al Sharpton, and William Shatner.

JOHN GLYNN (HE/HIM)

EXECUTIVE EDITOR 

John Glynn joined Hanover Square Press in 2017. He edits and acquires titles across a wide range of categories, including literary and upmarket commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, cultural history, memoir, pop science, and true crime and pop culture. His authors include Booker Prize winner John Banville, New York Times bestselling novelist Jane Green, National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss, actor and activist Tommy Dorfman, Olympic diver Tom Daley and acclaimed writers Heather Hansman, Sam Lansky, Goldie Taylor and Kelsey Miller. Previously he was an associate editor at Scribner, where he worked on numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Murder in the Bayou, The Opposite of Loneliness, Working Stiff, Sleeping Beauties, The Promise of a Pencil as well as Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, a B&N Discover pick. He is the author of Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer, an Oprah, The Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2019.

GRACE TOWERY (SHE/HER)

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Grace Towery is an associate editor at Hanover Square Press, acquiring both literary and upmarket fiction and nonfiction. In fiction, she is seeking stories that draw on a variety of genres, including suspense, family sagas, speculative, social horror, and coming of age. Her favorite stories acquaint her with complex characters, underrepresented voices, clever plot twists, insular worlds, the strange and surreal, and speak to larger power structures or themes of home, identity, and family. On the nonfiction side, she’s looking for pop science, psychology, sociology, thought-provoking big idea books, pop culture, and niche or feminist histories. Prior to joining Hanover, she interned with Algonquin Books and Don Congdon Associates. She is an alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill.

EDEN RAILSBACK (SHE/HER)

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Eden (she/her/hers) received a BA in English with a fiction writing concentration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2021. Prior to joining Hanover Square Press, Eden interned at Beacon Press. Eden loves to read science fiction, fantasy, ethnofuturisms, and speculative fiction. On her off days, she enjoys rock climbing, visiting farmer’s markets, and cooking.