Lauren McKenna is a Senior Editor at Pocket Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, where she acquires commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, pop-culture, street fiction, teen fiction, women’s fiction, and romance. A graduate of the University of Florida, she has also studied at NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science. Lauren’s list is distinctive and strong, reflecting both her passion and her pragmatism, as well as her belief that the rules of good writing and story-telling apply equally to the novel, the non-fiction title, teen fiction… and the rap biography. Not only does she acquire books for the main Pocket list but she also oversees the MTV Books line and the G-Unit Books line.