Nawal Qadir, Publicity Assistant

Nawal joined Simon & Schuster’s publicity team in April 2025. Since then, she has worked on a number of bestselling campaigns such as 107 Days by former Vice President Kamala Harris, Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, and Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson. She assists Maggie Southard Gladstone and Hannah Bishop.

She started her career in publishing through internships at Macmillan and W.W. Norton & Co. Brought up in Southern California, she holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from UCLA.