Cary Goldstein
Cary Goldstein is Associate Publisher of TWELVE, responsible for orchestrating the imprint’s publicity strategies, as well as acquiring and editing works of fiction and nonfiction. He was previously Assistant Director of Publicity and Director of Web Publicity at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he began his career as an intern in 1996 and went on to handle the publicity campaigns for numerous acclaimed books, including The Assassin's Gate by George Packer, Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen, and Mirror to America by John Hope Franklin.  

During his time with FSG he was instrumental in breaking out new voices in fiction and nonfiction, including David Bezmozgis, author of Natasha: And Other Stories; Emily Barton, author of Brookland; Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save Might Be Your Own ; Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance, which was nominated for the National Book Award; Jonathan Mahler, author of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning; and Noah Feldman, author of After Jihad, Divided by God, and a forthcoming book on FDR and the Supreme Court called THE SCORPIONS, to be published by TWELVE in November, 2010. Mr. Goldstein has also been senior publicist at Basic Books, Director of National Poetry Month for The Academy of American Poets, and buyer and features editor responsible for Fiction, Literature, and Poetry at Barnes & Noble.com.
 
At TWELVE he has edited Jess Winfield’s MY NAME IS WILL: A Novel of Sex, Drugs and Shakespeare, a New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” that ingeniously intertwines the misadventures of the eighteen-year-old bard and modern day Willie Greenberg as they struggle to become they men they are destined to be; WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU’LL KNOW I’M DEAD: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man, entertainment titan Jerry Weintraub’s hilarious, autobiographical account of what it takes to make it to the top, written with Rich Cohen; and Iowa Writers Workshop fellow Benjamin Hale’s forthcoming debut novel THE EVOLUTION OF BRUNO LITTLEMORE, a fictional memoir told from the point of view of the world's first chimpanzee to acquire the power of speech, chronicling the extraordinary events that lead to his imprisonment for murdering a man.