Shannon Welch

Shannon Welch currently serves as Vice President and Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster, a position held since January 2024. Previously, Shannon held similar roles at HarperOne from September 2023 to January 2024 and at Penguin Random House from July 2021 to January 2024. Prior experience includes serving as Executive Editor at HarperOne Publishers from August 2018 to July 2021, as well as a previous tenure at Simon & Schuster as Executive Editor from January 2012 to March 2017. Earlier in the career, Shannon worked as Executive Editor at Rodale from 2007 to 2012 and taught as an Adjunct Writing Professor at NYU–Poly from August 2003 to August 2007. Shannon holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.