At the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group:
Christopher Metts has joined KDPG as an associate marketing manager for Pantheon Books. He has worked in marketing at several companies, including the Liberty NYC, Aetrex Inc., and WMCHealth.
Lauren Cohn has joined the creative services team as marketing associate. She was an intern at the Book Group and is a recent graduate of the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.
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Emily Afifi, formerly a publicist at Wunderkind PR, has joined Blackstone Publishing as a publicist.