Veronica Chambers

About Veronica Chambers

The co-author of five New York Times bestsellers, Veronica is an editor and writer with a…

Experience

1. Editor, Narrative Projects

   The New York Times

   Jan 2018 — Present

   As Narrative Projects editor, based in London, Veronica steers several large projects a year within Special Projects and in partnership with desks including Style, Culture, International and Sports. In addition, she develops projects that can play in longer form, as books, podcast episodes, and on stage as events. This role allows Veronica to continue the work that she has already done with The Times, including Juneteenth, a digital and print package that was also a virtual event, Dance, a package curated by Misty Copeland with a live event, and Suffrage, a series of stories tied to the 19th Amendment centennial that is also being released as a young adult book, as an event series and as a virtual theater production. Veronica came to the Times two years ago as editor of Past Tense, the story team that published articles inspired by photography that The Times rediscovered as we digitized our photo archives. Before coming to The Times, Veronica wrote and edited several books and anthologies. Her recent work, “Between Harlem and Heaven,” a collection of recipes inspired by the culinary intersections between the Asian and African diaspora in American cuisine, won the James Beard Award for best American cookbook in 2019. She has written more than a dozen books for children, including the critically acclaimed “Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa.” Veronica also has experience in television: she spent two seasons as an executive story editor for the CW series “Girlfriends,” and has also written and developed projects for Fox and The N. A graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Veronica has been the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Hodder fellowship for emerging novelists at Princeton University, a National Endowment for the Arts fiction award and a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford.

Skills

• Blogging
• Copy Editing
• Editorial
• New Media
• Storytelling
• Creative Strategy
• Copywriting
• Web Content
• Social Media
• Magazines
• Fashion
• Digital Media
• Journalism
• Publishing
• Content Strategy
• Editing
• Brand Development