About Us

WHO WE ARE

Catapult is an innovative publishing venture created by the founders of Electric Literature  and Black Balloon Publishing. The company includes a book publishing program of the highest literary caliber.

Catapult Book Group is a collection of imprints that includes Catapult, Counterpoint Press, Soft Skull Press, and Hawthorne Books.

Since our launch in Fall 2015, Catapult’s books and authors have won numerous major literary awards, include the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award in Literature, the Maine Literary Award, the Costa Novel Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Our books have been finalists for many other prizes, including the Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Goldsmith Prize, the Miles Franklin Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN America Open Book Award, the California Book Award for First Fiction, the Stella Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction. Our books are frequently named to the American Booksellers Association Indie Next List, and have been featured as Amazon’s Best Books of the Year, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Reese’s Book Club and Belletrist Book Club picks, and as The New York Times Editors’ Choice selections. Our titles have been praised in The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many other outlets. To learn more, click here.

CONTACT US

For general queries: contact@catapult.co

For submissions: visit our  Submittable page

For media queries related to our books: contact our VP, Associate Publisher/Director of Publicity, Megan Fishmann.

To report piracy: contact@catapult.co

MASTHEAD

Elizabeth Koch, Co-founder & CEO

Alyson Forbes, Publisher/COO

EDITORIAL

Dan Smetanka, SVP/Editorial Director, Catapult Book Group

Kendall Storey, Editor-in-Chief, Catapult Books

Rob Shapiro, Associate Editor

Elizabeth Pankova, Assistant Editor

Alli Armijo, Editorial Assistant

MARKETING & EVENTS

Rachel Fershleiser, Associate Publisher, Executive Director of Marketing

Ashley Kiedrowski, Digital Marketing Manager

Lily Philpott, Events Manager

Skye Tarshis, Marketing Assistant

PUBLICITY

Megan Fishmann, VP, Associate Publisher, Senior Director of Publicity

Lena Moses-Schmitt, Assistant Director of Publicity

Andrea Córdova, Senior Publicist

Amina Washington, Assistant Publicist

SALES & OPERATIONS

Alyson Forbes, Publisher/COO

Miriam Vance, Contracts & Rights Associate, Awards Coordinator

Katie Mantele, Publishing Operations Associate

DESIGN

Nicole Caputo, Creative Director

Victoria Maxfield, Junior Designer

Eric Wilder, Design Assistant

PRODUCTION

Olenka Burgess, Production Director

Caroline Foulke, Production Assistant

MANAGING EDITORIAL

Wah-Ming Chang, Director of Managing Editorial

Laura Berry, Senior Production Editor

Olivia Hammerman, Production Editor