Celina (Cindy) Spiegel was the co-founder and co-publisher of Spiegel & Grau and a founding editor and publisher of Riverhead Books. She has launched the careers of many writers, including James McBride (The Color of Water), Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner), Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy), Gary Shteyngart (The Russian Debutante’s Handbook), Chang-rae Lee (Native Speaker), Alex Garland (The Beach), Kathleen Norris (Dakota), and ZZ Packer (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere); and has edited notable and bestselling writers including Yuval Noah Harari, Ari Shavit, Harold Bloom, Steven Rinella, Yann Martel, Sara Gruen, Leslie Chang, Sana Krasikov, Anne Lamott, and Dan Pink. Other books she has published on the Spiegel & Grau list include Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me; Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime; Piper Kerman’s Orange Is the New Black; Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore; the Beastie Boys’ The Beastie Boys Book; and Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy. Spiegel is also the editor, with Christina Büchmann, of the anthology Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible and, with Peter Kupfer, of Great First Lines. She sits on the boards of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a nonprofit that collects and propagates champion tree genetics and replants them with the goal of restoring our ancient forests, and Columbia Global Reports, a not-for-profit publisher at Columbia University.