Miriam Chotiner-Gardner, an associate editor at Crown, 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 the field of book publishing. As the winner, she will attend the Yale Publishing Course: Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing, July 20-25 in New Haven, Conn., and will also have access to an advisory committee of distinguished editors.
"Miriam stood out in a superb field of candidates this year," said Brenda Segel, HarperCollins senior v-p of rights, who spoke on behalf of the selection committee. "Miriam has been devoted to publishing since high school. She interned at Yale University Press and later at Norton and Oxford University Press throughout her high school and college years, and also spent a year working as a bookseller. She still finds time to moonlight on the retail side, which brings a very useful viewpoint to her editorial work. Her level of commitment to the industry and her curiosity across a broad spectrum of books shine through, and Larry would have loved to work with her."
A graduate of Williams College, Chotiner-Gardner spent a year at Three Lives & Company bookstore in Greenwich Village before joining Crown as an editorial assistant in 2011. Among her books is the forthcoming memoir A Fifty-Year Silence by Miranda Richmond Mouillot. Other titles she has worked on include Ben Macintyre's Double Cross and Timothy Geithner's Stress Test. She was promoted to associate editor this month.
