Jenny Bak is Executive Editor at Viking Children’s, where she edits middle grade and young adult novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Derrick Barnes, Sarah Kuhn, Kevin Sands, Robyn Schneider, and Sangu Mandanna, among others. Prior to Viking, she launched James Patterson’s children’s imprint as Editorial Director of JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown where she acquired the #1 New York Times bestselling Stalking Jack the Ripper series, as well as the bestsellers How to Be a Supervillain, Swipe Right for Murder, and Girls of Paper and Fire.