Hampson swaps Chatto for Atlantic

Poppy Hampson is moving to Atlantic Books to take up the role of publishing director for the Atlantic non-fiction imprint. 

She is currently editorial director at Penguin imprint Chatto & Windus and will make the move in September, following the departure of Mike Harpley earlier this year.

Hampson has worked for Penguin Random House for more than 20 years. Her authors included Caroline Criado Perez, whose Invisible Women won both the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Other non-fiction authors she worked with include investigative journalist Nick Davies, to food writer Ruby Tandoh, and prize-winning writers Lindsey Hilsum and Caroline Moorehead. 

Hampson also published fiction, including Emma Cline’s The Girls, Neel Mukherjee’s Booker-shortlisted The Lives of Others and Women’s Prize-shortlisted Ordinary People from Diana Evans. 

"I’ve grown up at Chatto and Vintage and I will always be proud of the work I’ve done here, and I’m so grateful for the extraordinary colleagues and authors I’ve been lucky to work with. But I am now hugely excited about this new venture, joining Will and his excellent team at this time of growth, and helping to shape their enviable non-fiction list for the years to come."

Will Atkinson, Atlantic’s m.d. and publisher, said: "I am absolutely thrilled to be welcoming Poppy into the company to take on this vital role. Atlantic non-fiction is the bedrock of our business and from where many of our bestsellers have come. By building on our already considerable strength, reputation and expertise in this area of publishing, Poppy’s arrival not merely adds another string to our bow but another violin in the orchestra."