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Megan Lynch is Editor at Riverhead, where she has worked since 2003. She has acquired and edited a range of literary fiction and non-fiction, including Dinaw Mengestu's acclaimed debut The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (a Los Angeles Times bestseller and the Seattle Reads pick for 2008), Ellis Avery's work of historical fiction The Teahouse Fire (a BookSense pick; winner of a Lambda Literary Award and an Ohioana Book Award), New Yorker short story writer Cristina Henriquez's collection Come Together, Fall Apart (a finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award for fiction), humorist Wendy McClure's memoir I'm Not the New Me, and the food writing anthology Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (a BookSense pick), edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler. She also works with Riverhead authors including Sarah Waters, Jennifer Belle, Dana Vachon, and Adam Davies. Prior to her arrival at Riverhead, Megan worked at Little, Brown and Company and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. A graduate of Brown University, she is originally from Philadelphia. | 