PublicAffairs Hires Colleen Lawrie & Tony Forde

By Dianna Dilworth 

PublicAffairs Books has hired on a new senior editor and a new publicist.

Colleen Lawrie will join PublicAffairs as a senior editor on March 9.  Lawrie comes to PublicAffairs from her role as editor at HarperCollins. She has also worked at Palgrave Macmillan and Random House.

Tony Forde will join PublicAffairs as a publicist on March 18.  He was most recently an associate publicist at Hachette Book Group’s Twelve imprint.