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Krishan Trotman

VP, Publisher

 

Krishan Trotman is the Vice-President, Publisher of Legacy Lit. She joined Hachette Books in 2016. In 2020 she launched Legacy Lit, an imprint dedicated to books that give voice to issues, authors, and communities that have been marginalized, underserved, and overlooked. This includes BIPOC authors, all women, and any group that they believe deserves a spotlight. The imprint is committed to promoting equality, equity, and inclusion for all people. The books are bold, mission-driven commercial works. Social justice and empowerment are Trotman’s passion. She likes to work with authors who are candid, bold, and, in their own unique way, not afraid to shake things up.

Her authors have included a range of award-winning and New York Times bestsellers, including congressman John Lewis’ Across That Bridge; journalist Stephanie Land’s Maid; MSNBC political analyst Malcolm Nance’s The Plot to Destroy Democracy; New York Times columnist Lindy West’s The Witches Are Coming and Shit Actually; UFC’s Mixed Martial Artist Paige VanZant’s Rise; Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad’s Proud; radio and TV host Zerlina Maxwell’s The End of White Politics; TV personality Ed Gordon’s Conversations in Black; journalist Talia Lavin’s Culture Warlords; Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’ memoir Nothing Personal; BRAVO’s Million Dollar Listing star Ryan Serhant’s Sell It Like Serhant and Big Money Energy; Morning Joe’s co-host Mika Brzezinski’s Earn It! and Comeback Careers; The Today Show’s cohost Al Roker’s You Look So Much Better in Person; and empowerment coach Gina DeVee’s The Audacity to Be Queen, to name a few.

Krishan has been featured in the New York Times, Essence Magazine, New York Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Salon, Shondaland, Cheddar TV, MSN, CSPAN, and more. She is the self-described Beyoncé of Books and mom to her son Bleu.

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Kathryn Gordon

Marketing & Publicity Director

 

Kathryn (Kathy) Gordon is the Marketing & Publicity Director for Legacy Lit. Deeply passionate about promoting voices that educate people in ethics, decency, and humanity, she partners with publisher, Krishan Trotman, on all aspects of the Legacy Lit list, to build an exciting and trusted brand dedicated to social change and to promote the Legacy Lit authors and books in celebration of their diverse communities.

The Founder of The Book Hook, a book marketing, graphic design and promotion company operating in traditional, and digital media and formerly the Director of Brand Development for HarperCollins, and having held positions at PRH, S&S, Author House and Berlitz, she has worked with New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors and brands. She has a highly successful track record in brand development, publicity, consumer promotion, strategic planning, and integrated marketing programs for multiple divisions of large entertainment-based companies and has developed campaigns for bestselling authors from Stephen King to Hillary Clinton, and the Agatha Christie estate, as well as brand alliances for numerous TV series and feature films. Kathy brings the highest level of commitment to every author, book and project in her charge. She’s curious and grateful to be in a career where she’s always learning. A healthy home chef, a SoulCycle OG since day one, and a devoted dancer, she also has a great passion for health, fitness, and wellness, believing whole-heartedly that a clean body and a curious mind can be the blank canvas for which anything is possible.

She’s the proud wife of childhood sweetheart, David and devoted mom to their built-in target market for all things hype, daughters Ava and Giulia.

Amina Iro

Amina Iro

Assistant Editor

 

Amina Iro is an Assistant Editor at Legacy Lit. She started her publishing career as an Editorial Assistant at Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, where she worked on titles by esteemed authors such as Cicely Tyson and Zora Neale Hurston. A writer and performance poet originally from Prince George’s County, MD, Amina was a 2020 Fellow for the Watering Hole Winter Writer’s Retreat. She has performed at venues in the US, England, Nigeria, and South Africa. Amina is a graduate of the First Wave program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied Neurobiology and English Creative Writing. She is interested in nonfiction books with brave motifs that invite readers to the juncture of identity and social change and create new awareness through crucial, yet overlooked connections. In particular, she is passionate about social science, psychology, and narratives from women and people of color, as well as fiction, poetry, and literature that illuminate the many facets of Black and queer life.

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