Jaime Leifer New Publishing Director of Bloomsbury US Adult Trade

Jaime Leifer (photo: Miguel Cervantes)

Jaime Leifer is joining the adult trade division of Bloomsbury US as publishing director, effective April 13. She was most recently the publisher of Columbia Global Reports, a nonprofit publishing imprint at Columbia University. Before that she worked for many years at Hachette Book Group as v-p, associate publisher at PublicAffairs, and then at Basic Books.

Bloomsbury US president Sabrina McCarthy said, "Jaime is an astute publisher with decades of experience working side by side with authors to make their books a success. Her creativity, financial acumen, intelligence and determination are the perfect combination to drive the next phase of growth for Bloomsbury's successful adult trade division." 

Leifer said, "It's an absolute honor to join the Bloomsbury team. I've always admired the incredible books that Bloomsbury publishes, and to get to be a part of bringing such smart, creative books to readers throughout the U.S. and the world is a dream come true. I can't wait to work with the fantastic team to identify great new voices in fiction and nonfiction and continue to publish Bloomsbury's authors brilliantly."