is the Founding Director of The New Yorker Festival - now entering its tenth year - a weekend-long series of over fifty events in New York City produced by The New Yorker magazine every October. As Director of Editorial Promotion for the magazine, she also produces The New Yorker College Tour, The New Yorker Conference, The New Yorker Speakeasy, and Fiction Live, among other programs. She joined the business staff of The New Yorker in 1986 as Promotion Director. She was then promoted to Vice President of Advertising Promotion and New Business Development. In 1995, she joined the editorial staff. Previously, she worked at Esquire and Gentlemen’s Quarterly and was on the launch team of Spin. Sherman lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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