Joe Monti is the award-nominated editorial director of Saga Press, working with bestselling and esteemed authors Charlaine Harris, Stephen Graham Jones, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Ken Liu, 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 buyer, and a sales rep.
Editorial Interests: A broad range from commercial to high concept literary genre; innovative novels from marginalized voices, and horror fiction (editor’s note: I firmly believe horror fiction is the genre to address the issues of today with class, culture, and race).
Amara Hoshijo is an editor at Saga Press. Originally from Honolulu and a graduate of the University of Southern California, she left warmer climates for New York City nearly a decade ago. Prior to joining Saga Press, she was an editor at Soho Press, where she specialized in international crime fiction, debut literary fiction, and speculative fiction for more than eight years. She also managed the company’s subrights initiative and is a former Frankfurt Fellow.
Amara is looking for ambitious, culturally driven projects in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Titles she acquired at Soho include Chana Porter’s The Seep, Clarissa Goenawan’s Rainbirds, Ilaria Tuti’s Flowers Over the Inferno, and Andromeda Romano-Lax’s Annie and the Wolves.
Jéla Lewter joined Saga Press in October 2021, bringing with her a love of all things speculative fiction. Originally from North Carolina, Jéla attended American University in Washington, D.C. After graduating, she pursued an education in the publishing industry through New York University’s 2020 Summer Publishing Institute and their publishing master’s program while interning at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency and eventually pioneering the inaugural year of Hachette Book Group’s Associate Program. Her passionate interest in sci-fi, fantasy, horror and the unique ways in which each critiques society brought her to Saga. She loves fiction that explores the darker side of human nature, shines light on marginalized voices, and poses questions without clear cut answers. She supports Joe Monti and Amara Hoshijo.