Denene Millner - Publishers Weekly 'Inclusive Children’s Book Publishers'

Publishers Weekly | November 17, 2023

Four editors tell PW why they love their work and their imprints’ missions.

Denene Millner

V-p and publisher, Denene Millner Books

In 2018, journalist and author Millner was running her eponymous imprint at Agate Publishing’s Bolden Books when she wrote “Black Kids Don’t Want to Read About Harriet Tubman All the Time,” a New York Times opinion piece “about how tired I was of not seeing enough books that speak to the everyday experiences of Black children.” That caught the attention of Simon & Schuster, which invited her to bring her imprint over; it launched in 2020.

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