DK Alpha
Olivia Peluso, Executive Editor, DK Alpha
I am especially interested in publishing prescriptive nonfiction within the cooking, health & wellness, pop culture, business, and self-help genres, and I’m passionate about creating books that can help change lives for the better. My authors include Hailee Catalano, Old Time Hawkey, Brie Larson & Courtney McBroom, Renee Miller & Tim Beissinger, Callie Gullickson, and Timm Chiusano.
I began my publishing career as a sales assistant at DK in 2013 and returned to DK as a senior editor in 2022. In between, I worked on bestselling tech- and women-focused business and self-help titles, like Measure What Matters by John Doerr, Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo, and Brotopia by Emily Chang, at Portfolio (Penguin Random House), before joining The Experiment, where I acquired and edited award-winning cooking and health & wellness titles, including the James Beard Award–nominated Plant-Based India by Dr. Sheil Shukla and internationally bestselling Love Your Gut by Dr. Megan Rossi.
In my non-editing time, you can find me walking my rescue dog Finn along the marsh trails near my home, volunteering with animals, or teaching yoga in an apple orchard.
A book I’m proud of…
I’m especially proud to have published the New York Times–bestselling By Heart by Hailee Catalano.
A book I wish I’d published…
I wish I had published The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook.