Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) is senior editor at Simon & Schuster's newest imprint, Simon Maverick. Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Chantelle Aimée Osman was an acquiring editor at Amazon Publishing, where she worked with bestselling authors such as Robert Dugoni, Mark Sullivan, Suzanne Redfearn, Megan Chance, Victoria Helen Stone, and Simon Tolkien.

Previously, she helped found Agora Books, an imprint of independent press Polis Books, focusing on crime fiction and horror with unique social and cultural voices—themes which still hold a special place in her heart. At Agora, she acquired and edited authors including John Vercher, Cynthia Pelayo, Gabino Iglesias, and Tori Eldridge. Her titles have won International Latino Book Award medals; been nominated for Edgar, Stoker, Dagger, Anthony, Strand Critics, Macavity, and Lefty awards; and been featured in NPR, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chicago Tribune, Reader’s Digest, Oprah Daily, People, and Entertainment Weekly. 

She was named a Publishers Weekly Rising Star honoree in 2020, and was the former editor in chief of RT Book Reviews magazine, and is a (recovering) lawyer, and professor at the LIU Brooklyn Polk School of Communication MFA in Writing and Publishing.

Chantelle is the author of series of non-fiction writing guides The Quick and Dirty Guides To…,  and has published numerous works of short fiction, and served as the editor of multiple anthologies, including the acclaimed Jewish Noir, Volume 2 from PM Press. She has co-written the graphic novels The Awakened and The Rejects, and serves as the creative consultant for the reimagined Dick Tracy comic. 

She also serves on the Race Equity & Social Justice Committee of the Pongo Poetry Project, a non-profit organization that uses personal poetry writing to heal youth who have experienced trauma and other difficult and complicated experiences; as well as serving as the board of Prototype Health, a non-profit organization providing high-quality, cost-effective, integrated primary health care for uninsured, underinsured, and needy individuals.

When not buried in a book, you can find her wherever her Boston Terriers, Tamerlane and Henry, and her cat, Lafitte, want to go.