Bloomsbury has appointed Alexis Kirschbaum, currently editorial director at Penguin Press, as publishing director for fiction and nonfiction, the Bookseller reported. Kirschbaum, who joined Penguin in 2008 as an editor for classics and modern classics, became editorial director in 2011. She will start at Bloomsbury September 13, reporting to group editor-in-chief Alexandra Pringle.
Pringle said Kirschbaum "is a publisher to her fingertips: clever, imaginative, original and energetic. She will bring so much to Bloomsbury, not least her experience in publishing non-fiction bestsellers and her very fine taste which will be evident as she spreads her wings and builds a fiction list here. This is an exciting moment for Bloomsbury."