What made you decide to pursue publishing, specifically children’s editorial?

I’ve always loved storytelling, and I knew that I wanted to tell, or help tell, stories for a living. When I moved to New York for college, I knew that I wanted to major in English, but I still wasn’t sure of what career path I wanted to follow. I remember a friend of mine was working at Scholastic at the time, and she loved it. This piqued my interest, so I decided I’d try to get an internship in publishing. Eventually, I started interning at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. I loved it (I was reading all day!), and I never left publishing.

Polo Orozco is an editor at G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He’s also a translator and an audiobook enthusiast. He often rides his bike around NYC. He seldom tweets at @Polo_Orozco_.

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