The Poets & Writers 2019 Editor of the Year, DAWN DAVIS is the founding publisher and Senior Vice President of 37 INK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. She has edited many prize-winning and New York Times bestselling books, including one of the 2023 New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the Year, “Master Slave Husband Wife” by Ilyon Woo; “How to Say Babylon” by Safiya Sinclair; “The School for Good Mothers” by Jessamine Chan; “Never Caught,” a finalist for the National Book Award, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar; “The Final Revival of Opal & Nev” by Dawnie Walton; “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” by Issa Rae; “Tough Love” by Ambassador Susan Rice; “I Can’t Make this Up” by Kevin Hart, and various books by weight loss expert JJ Smith, including the “10 Day Green Smoothie Cleanse.”
In 2020, Davis was named Editor in Chief of the Condé Nast magazines, Bon Appétit and Epicurious. She returned to Simon & Schuster in 2023.
Prior to first joining Simon & Schuster, Davis was publisher of Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins, where she edited “The Known World” by Edward P. Jones, which won the Pulitzer Prize; Steve Harvey’s “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,” which was one of the best-selling books of the decade; and “The Pursuit of Happyness” by Chris Gardner.