GRACE O’CONNELL (she/her) joined Simon & Schuster Canada in 2024. Previously, she was Senior Editor at the CanLit website Open Book, working with Ontario’s independent publishers. She taught creative writing at the University of Toronto for ten years and worked as a freelance writer and editor with The Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus and Harlequin. Grace’s first acquisition for Simon & Schuster is the forthcoming fiction debut Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell. She is also the Canadian editor for The Forbidden Tales, an internationally bestselling horror series by French Canadian authors, as well as novels by Niklas Natt Och Dag, Michael Robotham, and Robert Rotenberg. O’Connell is the author of two novels published by Random House Canada, including a bestselling debut, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing.