Meet the team

Learn more about the Gallery Books publishing team

Lauren Spiegel
Vice President, Executive Editor
Lauren began her publishing career at Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone imprint in 2006. She joined Gallery in January 2019.

Her list includes the #1 New York Times bestsellers, The Woman in Me by Britney Spears, Solutions and Other Problems and Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh, Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick, and Grace’s Guide by Grace Helbig, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Heirloom Rooms by Erin Napier, Believe It by Jamie Kern Lima, Make Trouble by Cecile Richards, Yoga Girl by Rachel Brathen, Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York edited by Sari Botton, and The Hunger Pains by The Harvard Lampoon, among others.

Over the course of Lauren's career, her books have been named Goodreads Choice Award winners, #1 Indie Next Picks, an ALA Alex Award winner, a Bill Gates Pick, and one of then-New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal's 10 Favorite Books of the Year.

Lauren is looking for humor, pop culture, narrative nonfiction, memoir, self-help with humor and heart, lifestyle, and illustrated books, as well as a limited number of commercial fiction titles.