Natasha Qureshi

An Experienced SFF Editor

Previously Hodder & Stoughton

Before joining The Novelry, Natasha Qureshi was the Commissioning Editor at Hodderscape, Hodder & Stoughton’s SFF imprint and home of international SFF bestsellers by Frank Herbert, L.R. Lam, Chloe Gong, Roshani Chokshi and Pierce Brown.

Initially, she joined Hodderscape as an Assistant Editor, working with authors such as Chloe Gong, Kerri Maniscalco, Sangu Mandanna, Adalyn Grace and Stephanie Garber. Soon, she was promoted to Commissioning Editor and began to acquire and work with authors such as Cecy Robson, Ella Fields, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Frankie Diane Mallis, Hayley Dennings, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Lexi Ryan, Tad Williams, Paula Lafferty, Kylie Lee Baker and Micaiah Johnson, who was shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Natasha also has experience working with popular subscription box services and bespoke retailers such as FairyLoot, Illumicrate, Goldsboro Books, and Broken Binding to create exclusive special editions.

Prior to her work at Hodder & Stoughton, Natasha worked as part of the Titan Books fiction team, home to authors including V.E. Schwab, Paul Tremblay, Christina Henry and Charlie Jane Anders. There, she had a hand in co-editing the novels of Nicole Jarvis, Matt Hill, Stark Holborn, Marian Womack, J.L. Worrad, Hannah Mathewson, A.J. Hackwith, R.L. Boyle, A.G. Slatter, Andrew Cartmel, Aliya Whiteley, Tim Major, and an anthology of CWA Dagger Award-winning short stories by Maxim Jakubowski. Natasha is a graduate of the University of Kent and has a BA in English and American Literature with Creative Writing, as well as an MA from Oxford Brookes University in Publishing.

A ‘passionate’ editor

Praise for Natasha:

‘Natasha’s editorial input was instrumental in helping me find the heart of my novel. Her suggestions were both inspired, logical and transformative and I loved every minute of working with her.’—Stark Holborn, author of Ten Low

‘Brilliant. Wonderful to work with. A true gem in the publishing world.’—Cecy Robson, author of Bloodguard

‘Working with Natasha has always been such a pleasure! She’s a wonderful, passionate editor who works incredibly hard for her authors, and her years of experience with the full breadth of the genre is invaluable.’—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

‘Natasha is a dream editor in so many ways. She is insightful: a lifelong SFF aficionada who knows the genre and market inside and out. And Natasha genuinely cares about an author’s voice and vision, bringing out the best in every work she touches with skill, empathy, enthusiasm, and imagination.’—Calah Singleton, Editor, Hodderscape

‍‘Natasha Qureshi has a rare combination of talent, foresight, deep-rooted passion and straight-up energy that she brings to everything she does. Her enthusiasm is contagious, in the best way. I’ve always valued her insight on edits, her empathy and finely honed instincts for characterisation, the nuance she brings to relationships between themes and real world ethics, and her ability to step back and look at the big picture as well. She’ll both get every individual adjective perfect, and make sure you’ve used the right tense to tell your story.’—George Sandison, Managing Editor, Titan Books