Rose Green joins Doubleday as commissioning editor

Rose Green has joined Doubleday as commissioning editor for fiction after previously working at Footnote Press and MacLehose Press. 

Green now reports to Kirsty Dunseath, publisher of of the Transworld imprint. 

While she was commissioning editor at Footnote Press, Green acquired debuts by Hanako Footman and Jade Song, along with award-winning Japanese author Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English.  

Before that she worked at MacLehose Press and published the International Booker-shortlisted GauZ’, and acquired Russian author Oksana Vasyakina, as well as Akutagawa Prize winner Nanae Aoyama with colleague Paul Engles. 

Dunseath said: “Rose has a wonderfully keen eye for fiction that works across boundaries, that plays with genre, and is imaginative and enticing. She has great literary taste and also her experience of working with fiction in translation feeds into one of the development areas on our Doubleday list. I am excited to welcome her to the team.”      

Green said: “The opportunity to join Doubleday was one I couldn’t pass up, and I’m thrilled to be part of a team whose publishing I have long admired.  

“As I build my list here, I’ll be looking for fiction that plays with that porous divide between literary and speculative, and for writing with an international scope, be that in translation or in English, which touches on the evergreen topics of love, grief, familial bonds and untangling the knot of identity.” 

She can be contacted at RGreen1@Penguinrandomhouse.co.uk.