THE SAGA PRESS TEAM

Joe Monti is the award-nominated editorial director of Saga Press, working with bestselling and esteemed authors Tananarive Due, Charlaine Harris, Stephen Graham Jones, Ken Liu, Rebecca Roanhorse, and R. A. Salvatore, to name a few. He fell in love with the literature of fantasy and science fiction at an early age and never let go. After all, as Ursula K. Le Guin counsels, “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” Before joining Saga Press in 2013, Joe worked in the industry for eighteen years as a literary agent, an editor, a Barnes & Noble buyer, and a sales rep.

‍Editorial Interests: A broad range in fantasy including commercial, cozy, anthropomorphic, and of course epic fantasy, science fiction from hard SF to space opera, climate fiction in the J.G. Ballard sense, high concept literary genre-benders, and especially innovative novels from marginalized voices, and not lastly, horror fiction.

(Editor’s note: Novels I have edited have been awarded the Bram Stoker award for Best Horror Novel four out of the last five years. I firmly believe horror fiction is the genre to address the issues of today with class, culture, and race in an engaging and immediate way.)