Kelly Delaney

Kelly Delaney is a Senior Editor at Crown Books for Young Readers, where she acquires and edits books for young readers of all ages. She has a master’s degree in Publishing: Digital and Print Media from NYU and has been at Random House Children’s Books for twelve years. Books she has edited include the Race to theTruth series, Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi, and Grandma’s Purse by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, and she has been fortunate enough to work with many of her favorite authors, from R.J. Palacio and Markus Zusak to Anita Lobel and Norton Juster. At Crown, she focuses on books by and about marginalized creators, characters, and communities.

Kelly will critique: 

• Picture Books
• Board Books
• Chapter Books
• Early Readers
• Middle Grade
• Young Adult
• New Adult
• Nonfiction
• Poetry
• Comic/Graphic Novels