Milena Blue Spruce

Milena Blue Spruce	Associate Editor Milena Blue Spruce is an Associate Editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She has been at LBYR for 5 years and acquires projects across all age categories: picture books, middle grade, young adult, and new adult. Milena is particularly interested in finding projects with disability representation, and her favorite project to read is a young adult speculative novel. When not at work, she's passionate about volunteering at her local food pantry, volunteer gardening at the park, and feeding the local feral cat colony.	 Milena will be critiquing: <ul><li>Picture book nonfiction</li><li>Middle grade fiction</li><li>YA fiction</li><li>Novel-in-verse</li></ul>