Dawn Davis, the publisher of HarperCollins’ Amistad imprint, will move to Simon & Schuster’s Atria Publishing Group to serve as publisher of an as-yet-unnamed imprint.
She will assume her new post on April 1st. Davis had spent 12 years at HarperCollins, beginning as the editorial director of Amistad.
Here’s more about the new imprint, from the release: “The new imprint will draw on Ms. Davis’s strengths as an editor and publisher, with a list that will encompass the best in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, journalism, memoirs and pop culture, and drawn from a wide range of authors of all backgrounds.”