Lauren Howard is an editor and writer with several years’ experience working in some of the most competitive and successful editorial teams in the UK publishing industry, including Penguin Random House and Hachette UK. Over the course of her career, she has edited and developed a wide range of bestselling and award-winning books. Some of these include: Rambling Man by Sir Billy Connolly, a major bestselling memoir about the comedian and national treasure’s life on the road; My Beautiful Sisters by co-founder and former captain of the Afghanistan national women’s football team, Khalida Popal, which won multiple awards, along with being shortlisted for more, and was named both a Financial Times and Guardian’s Best Sports Books of the Year; and the critically-acclaimed, investigative memoir I Seek a Kind Person by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Guardian World Affairs Editor Julian Borger. She has also worked on an extensive list of internationally acclaimed and bestselling books, including: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, An Immense World by Ed Yong, 1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Spider Woman by Lady Hale and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Lauren has worked with leading voices across science, culture and politics, including bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair, TV presenter Megan McCubbin and music journalist Miranda Sawyer. She has extensive experience working closely with and nurturing the development of authors at every stage of their careers – from debut writers to established bestsellers – helping to shape ideas into compelling, accessible narratives with strong commercial potential. Alongside her editorial work, Lauren serves as a Trustee on the Board of the Charlotte Aitken Trust (CAT), alongside novelist and bestselling author Sebastian Faulks CBE FRSL, renowned literary agent Clare Alexander and Simon Murray FCA. CAT awards prizes, grants and scholarships to organisations that promote the creative arts; it is the principal sponsor of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and supports organisations including the Arvon Foundation, First Story, Young Vic and New Writing North, as well as the Forward Poetry Prize and a range of other projects across the UK. Lauren is also a writer, currently working on her debut book, and is represented by Janklow & Nesbit UK.