Nancy Mercado

Nancy Mercado began her career as a book club editor for the Scholastic Book Clubs, where she worked for several years, which led her to Dial Books for Young Readers, where she worked as an editor for several more years. She is currently an executive editor at Roaring Brook Press, working on middle-grade and young-adult novels. Nancy’s had the good fortune of editing such books as Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien, Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face by Paul Acampora, Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald, The Girl Is Murder by Kathyrn Miller Haines, Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook by Ellen Potter and Anne Mazer, and many, many others. When she’s not editing, Nancy mentors with Girls Write Now, a nonprofit organization that pairs professional women with young women writers from high schools around New York City for weekly writing sessions.