Cassidy M. Graham

Cassidy Graham is a New York Times bestselling editor who acquires prescriptive, expert-driven, and platform-driven nonfiction for The Open Field and Penguin Life, imprints of Viking Penguin, in categories such as self-help, health, psychology, neuroscience, body/mind/spirit, religion, spirituality, inspiration, creativity, and women’s issues.

In particular, she is looking to acquire books in the following categories:

• Women’s health and grounded, holistic self-help for women.
• Disease prevention and management, functional and traditional medicine, nutrition, longevity.
• Mental health, and psychology.
• Inspiration and creativity.
• Personal development and individuation.
• Spirituality, religion, energy work, and metaphysical topics interwoven with broader, prescriptive themes.
• Love and romance; healthy relationships.

Cassidy previously worked on fiction and nonfiction books at St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan for seven years.

About The Open Field: 

The Open Field, from Maria Shriver, is a publishing imprint with a Mission and a Purpose to publish bestselling and award-winning books that rise above the noise and move humanity forward. We publish the thoughts, words, and ideas of writers who inspire us to live our wildly authentic and deeply meaningful lives in the open field. We’ll meet you there.

The Open Field publishes books in categories such as self-improvement, health, spirituality, poetry, business, parenting, politics, relationships, and more.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to cagraham@penguinrandomhouse.com

• Agented submissions only
• Please do not send the same submission to multiple editors at The Open Field, Penguin Life, or Viking 
• Nothing fully illustrated, 4-color, or mainly photo
• No memoirs
• Diverse and #ownvoices encouraged