Caroline Zancan

SENIOR EDITOR

Caroline Zancan is a Senior Editor at Holt, acquiring literary and upmarket fiction and memoir. She’s particularly drawn to story-driven literary fiction with a big pitch. As an Ohio expat she loves stories about the Midwest and the South and all the states that don’t always get enough credit for their texture and nuance. Her taste in fiction has a dark streak, and she’s always on the lookout for meticulously plotted literary horror and mystery novels. She’s a sucker for big-hearted, off-beat, and voicey debuts and especially loves to publish voices we haven’t traditionally gotten to hear from as much in the past. She edited Heather Harpham’s Happiness, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick; Nafkote Tamirat’s The Parking Lot Attendant, which was a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the Center for Fictions’ First Novel Prize; and National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon’s Sleepwalk, which Holt is publishing in 2022. Recent acquisitions for Holt include Alison Espach’s Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance and a debut memoir by the acclaimed novelist Hannah Pittard.