Josefine Kals, Vice President and Associate Publisher / Director of Publicity, Summit Books

Josefine Kals joined Summit Books in February 2024. Josie started her career in 2009 at Penguin Random House’s Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, and over her 15 years at KDPG she represented and worked on the book publicity campaigns for novelists, poets, and nonfiction authors alike, including Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kaveh Akbar, Judy Blume, President Bill Clinton, Esi Edugyan, Art Garfunkel, James Gleick, Yaa Gyasi, Margo Jefferson, Daniel Kehlmann, Jhumpa Lahiri, Robin Coste Lewis, Deborah Lipstadt, Javier Marías, Toni Morrison, Maggie O’Farrell, Sharon Olds, Michael Ondaatje, Orhan Pamuk, Tracy K. Smith, Art Spiegelman, Kevin Young, and Charles Yu.