She acquired and edited The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008; her first acquisition for Free Press, Heart Like Water by Joshua Clark, was nominated for a 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Before coming to Free Press, she was an editor at Picador, where she acquired rights to books including the Orange and Whitbread award-winning novel Small Island by Andrea Levy, the NBCC award-winning Voices from Chernobyl, The Seas by Samantha Hunt and three books by acclaimed Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa. She worked in Editorial at Alfred A. Knopf for several years; before that, she worked at a translation house in Tokyo, also for a number of years. Fluent in French and Japanese, she studied pure mathematics/algebraic topology as an undergraduate and as a Monbusho Scholar in the Graduate School of Chiba University, Japan.