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| Caitlin McKenna (photo: Danielle Siess) | |
Caitlin McKenna, an editor at Random House, has won the Ashmead Award, named in honor of the late Larry Ashmead and designed to nurture the career of a promising young editor in book publishing. As the winner, McKenna will attend the Yale Publishing Course: Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing next summer and will have access to a group of preeminent editors in the publishing community, many of whom worked with Ashmead during their careers.
Speaking on behalf of the selection committee, Emma Sweeney, president of Emma Sweeney Agency, said, "Every year since we started the award, we've received more and more superbly qualified candidates, and choosing the winner from such an impressive field this year was particularly tough. But in the end we chose Caitlin, whose wide breadth of interests, passion and editorial skills, we think Larry would have appreciated."
McKenna began her publishing career in 2009 as an assistant at Melanie Jackson Agency. In 2012, she joined Random House.