Stephanie Frerich, Vice President and Executive Editor

Stephanie Frerich is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster, where she acquires idea-driven, conversation-starting nonfiction on topics such as current events, narrative nonfiction, business and economics, history, politics, nature, psychology, and memoir.

Some of her bestselling and award-winning books include Burn Book by Kara Swisher, Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson, Just Pursuit by Laura Coates, Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone, I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, No Filter by Sarah Frier, How to Invest and The Highest Calling by David Rubenstein, Brotopia by Emily Chang, and The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo. Other of her authors include Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gretchen Morgenson, Death, Sex & Money podcast host Anna Sale, Congressman Ro Khanna, Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz, neuroscientist Heather Berlin, Wall Street Journal relationship columnist Elizabeth Bernstein, and more.

Hailing from Minnesota, she studied James Joyce while pursuing a master’s degree at Trinity College in Ireland, learned how to run a small publishing company at Ivan R. Dee in Chicago, briefly left publishing for a jaunt in the startup world at Skillshare, and brings an innovative, hands-on approach for how to publish good books.