Lucia Macro is a Vice-President, Executive Editor for William Morrow/Avon Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers. She made her mark editing the best in romantic fiction as well as smart, commercial women’s fiction. Recently, she has also edited including the New York Times bestselling Butternut Lake series by Mary McNear, the international bestseller / USA Today bestselling The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor, the USA Today bestseller The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman and others. In the romance field she has worked with authors such as Rachel Gibson, Stephanie Laurens, Lisa Kleypas, Cathy Maxwell, Lori Wilde, and Katharine Ashe, among many others.  Lucia received the Vivian Stephens Industry Award from the Romance Writers of America, given to a non-writer who has contributed to the organization in a significant manner. Lucia is graduate of Fordham University, where she received a B.A. in English and will earn her MILS from Pratt Institute this May.