Emma Shaw, Art & Design Assistant

Emma Shoshanna Shaw joined Simon & Schuster’s Art Department in 2023. She is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she previously worked at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. She received her MFA in illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design and graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in studio art and English from Gettysburg College.

In addition to managing cover rights and permissions for the Simon & Schuster, Saga Press, 37 Ink, and Summit Books imprints, Emma researches art and photography for titles across a variety of genres. Her illustration work can be found on the interior pages of Presidential inaugural poet and #1 New York Times bestselling author Amanda Gorman’s For There Is Always Light: A Journal, as well as on the covers of Secure Love by Julie Menanno and The Living Mountain by Nan Sheperd. She assists Art Director’s Jackie Seow, Math Monahan, Ella Laytham, and Natalia Olbinski.