Ansa Khan Khattak is Editorial Director at Sceptre, where she commissions literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her authors include Wendy Erskine, Daniel Schreiber and Rufi Thorpe. She previously held roles at Picador, and Hutchinson Heinemann – where she published Paul Harding’s This Other Eden, and commissioned Rebecca K Reilly’s Greta & Valdin. Novels that she has published have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.