Toni Kirkpatrick is a Senior Editor at Diversion Books. Previously at Crooked Lane Books and St. Martin’s Press, she has published award-winning and critically-acclaimed fiction, including ALA, Anthony, CWA Historical Dagger, Lefty, and John Gardner Fiction Book Award winners. Toni is building a genre fiction list and looking for thrillers, sci-fi/fantasy, and horror. She loves cross-genre novels, fiction that brings history to life, humor, feminist retellings, political engagement, and powerful storylines that explore the human experience. Toni serves as Chair of Latinx in Publishing and is committed to publishing underrepresented writers.