Acquisitions Team

Our Acquisitions Team

Akin Akinwumi Editor-at-Large

Akin acquires ambitious, intellectually bold fiction and nonfiction, including rediscovered classics. He is particularly interested in novels, short story collections, book-length essays, memoir, biography, reportage, environmental narrative, science writing, travelogue, and cultural criticism. Akin looks for books that blend classic aesthetics with a fresh, contemporary sensibility, and that astonish with their vision and style.

Nicholas Freer Editorial Assistant

Nicholas acquires literary and speculative fiction. He is looking for new voices or works that accomplish something new whether in character, structure, narrative, genre, or form. He also acquires compelling non-fiction in the realm of history, reportage, essay, travelogue, food, and politics.

Kathryn Lane Senior Editor

Kathryn acquires nonfiction across a broad range of subjects including politics, local interest, wellness, history, and business. She is particularly interested in city development, our built heritage, personal finance, pop culture, and true crime.

Meghan Macdonald Publisher

Meghan acquires nonfiction in the areas of history, sports, current events, and public policy. She is looking for proposals and manuscripts that balance readability, narrative drive, and intellectualism.

Meghan also acquires fiction on a very selective basis for both the Rare Machines literary fiction imprint and Dundurn’s fiction list. She is looking for stories that hook and transport the reader and are beautifully and thoughtfully crafted with a focus on language, storytelling, and voice.

Elena Radic Managing Editor

Elena acquires literary fiction, autofiction, essays, and memoir with themes focusing on women’s issues, class and immigrant experiences, the environment, and other social issues. She also acquires nonfiction works on nutrition and wellness, psychology and mental health, and parenting and family.

Russell Smith Acquisitions Editor

Russell acquires literary fiction for the Rare Machines imprint and journalistic, researched nonfiction on any subject for Dundurn Press.