Nancy Miller, publishing director for Bloomsbury U.S.'s adult trade division, has announced that she will step down and take the position of executive editor for adult trade starting Jan. 1, 2026. Bloomsbury will begin recruiting for a new adult publishing director to oversee both fiction and nonfiction, reporting to Sabrina McCarthy.
“I couldn’t be more proud of our team, our authors, our list, and our stellar publishing," Miller, who served as publishing director for five years, said. "January will mark my 50th anniversary in publishing, and with the Adult Trade division on such solid ground, this feels like the right time to return exclusively to the work that drew me into publishing in the first place: working with my authors, editing, acquiring, and developing new projects and championing them through publication."
During Miller's tenure at Bloomsbury, which began in February 2008, Bloomsbury U.S. has become a powerhouse arm of the company, thanks in part to its adult trade division, where Miller also served as associate publisher and editorial director. Since becoming publishing director in 2021, Miller led the adult trade list to literary and commercial success with bestselling fiction like Susanna Clarke's The Wood at Midwinter; bestselling nonfiction like William Dalrymple's The Golden Road; and Winfred Rembert’s Chasing Me to My Grave, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for memoir.
“Nancy is a beloved colleague, who has helped build the Bloomsbury adult trade list here in the U.S. into a strong and thriving home for authors of meaningful works of nonfiction and beautifully crafted novels," said Bloomsbury U.S. president Sabrina McCarthy. "We are thrilled that she will remain a vital part of the adult editorial team as executive editor.”
As she returns to her roots in publishing, Miller told PW she hopes the next publishing director will be someone who "fits in with the collegial, supportive culture," which she said "has been one of the keys to our success over the last years."
As executive editor, Miller will lean back into her work with some of the many Bloomsbury authors with whom she has built editorial relationships, like Roz Chast and James Hansen, the NASA scientist whose book on climate change Storms of My Grandchildren Miller stewarded from idea to publication in 2009.
"I feel like it did really move the conversation about climate change at a moment when nobody wanted to read about it," Miller told PW. A follow-up book named after Hansen's granddaughter has been 10 years in the making, and is now nearing completion, she said, adding that Storms and Sophie's Planet will be "nice bookends to my time here."
