Selena James is executive editor at Kensington Publishing Corp. She joined the company in 2006 to oversee and acquire fiction and nonfiction in all formats and genres for Kensington’s African-American imprint, Dafina Books. At Dafina, Selena works with New York Times bestselling authors Mary Monroe, Mary B. Morrison, and Carl Weber, as well as women’s fiction and romance authors Gwynne Forster, Niobia Bryant, Lutishia Lovely, and many more. She also oversees the publishing programs for Souls of My Sisters and Holloway House Classics.

Before joining Kensington, Selena was an editor at Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books imprint, where she acquired and edited romance, erotica, mystery, inspirational, teen, African-American women’s fiction, and chick lit for Downtown Press. Her Pocket Books authors included New York Times bestselling author Janet Chapman, Caridad Pineiro, and Dorien Kelly. When Selena is not hard at work editing a future bestseller, she’s watching the funniest shows on television: 30 Rock and The Colbert Report.

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