Lara Heimert
SVP, Publisher
Phone: 212-364-0669
Email: lara.heimert@hbgusa.com
Twitter: @laraheimert
Lara Heimert joined Basic Books in 2005. Previously, she was publisher of the trade division at Yale University Press. She has published numerous prize-winning and New York Times bestselling titles. Highlights include Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told, Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the Ottomans, John Bradshaw’s Dog Sense and Cat Sense, Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, Nicholas Stargardt’s The German War, Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork, and Victor Davis Hanson’s The Second World Wars. A graduate of Princeton University, Lara acquires primarily in the field of history, broadly conceived—from world wars to marginalia, from culinary history to political theory, from diaspora to doodles.
Emma Berry
Senior Editor
Phone: 212-364-0542
Email: emma.berry@hbgusa.com
Emma Berry joined Basic Books in 2020 and acquires in economics, history, law, and the social sciences, with a particular interest in feminism and queer studies. Before joining Basic, she was an editor at Crown, where she acquired and edited books by Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Holly Jackson, Dorothy Brown, and Maurice Chammah.
Marissa Koors
Associate Editor
Phone: 212-364-0658
Email: marissa.koors@hbgusa.com
Twitter: @marissakoors
Marissa Koors joined Basic Books and Seal Press in 2021. On the Seal list, she acquires in women's history, feminist theory, popular culture, and technology studies, with an emphasis on feminist modes of scholarship and original voices. Before joining Seal, she was the philosophy editor at Wiley Blackwell, an imprint of John Wiley and Sons, where her backlist featured books by Ann Cudd, Susan Schneider, Joy James, Nancy Bauer, Laura Hengehold, Eva Feder Kittay, Linda Martín Alcoff, and Alison Jaggar.