Iris Blasi is Marketing Director and Senior Editor at Pegasus Books, where she works on a wide list of topics. She has held editorial positions at Random House and Barnes & Noble’s Union Square Press, and she has also worked at ebook publisher Open Road Integrated Media, at literary PR company Hilsinger-Mendelson East, at publishing consulting firm The Idea Logical Company, and for NBC's breaking news division. During her career, she has worked on books by authors including Rachel Carson, Erica Jong, Nigella Lawson, Ira Levin, Suzanne Somers, Jerry Stahl, Gloria Steinem, Donald Trump, and Fay Weldon. Her writing has appeared in numerous outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Dow Jones Newswires, Publishers Weekly and Bust. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and a double-minor in American Studies and Women’s Studies, and sshe is currently a masters candidate in Humanities and Social Thought at New York University.

I’ve worked in digital marketing and new media for Atavist Books, The Penguin Press, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I also host the infrequent literary trivia night “Nerd Jeopardy!” and, with Jason Diamond, a roving media party called The Mingle. In my spare time I illustrate facts to get people out of awkward silences: http://help-fill-the-silence.tumblr.com/