Liz Garriga is a Sr. Director of Publicity at Little, Brown, part of Hachette Book Group. Previously, she has held publicity positions at W. W. Norton, FSG and Simon & Schuster. She has worked with some of the most admired and bestselling authors of our time including Malcolm Gladwell, Stacy Schiff, Justice John Paul Stevens, Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Luis Alberto Urrea, Malala Yousafzai and Congressman Jim Clyburn. Among the bestselling books she’s publicized are Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers and Revenge of the Tipping Point, Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra and The Witches, the LA Times Book Prize winner, They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery, the LA Times Book Prize finalist, The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell, and the first and only diary by a Guantánamo detainee, Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, released as the film The Mauritanian.
Based in Los Angeles, Liz serves as a mentor for People of Color in Publishing, and she’s spoken at industry conferences including PEN America’s Reading Between the Lines, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Write Girl and Las Comadres Writers Conference.