Ezra Kupor works at HarperCollins Publishers, where he acquires and edits a diverse list of titles across the Harper Perennial and Harper Books imprints.

Ezra is compelled by the universal human drive to seek meaning and selfhood in a vastly changing world. He’s always on the look-out for fiction and nonfiction that work to investigate the multiple contradictions of identity and explore places and communities of belonging. This means he’s inherently more attuned to queer and underrepresented voices and/or drawn to stories in which the strangeness of the world adds pressure to what is already pressurized. More than anything, he loves a read that leaves you feeling more tender and full of wonder than when you began.

These interests bring him across genres and formats—including identity-driven cookbooks, trans speculative literary fiction, essay collections on art and identity politics, upmarket commercial books about corporate racism and lesbian love triangles, and more—but he is especially looking for accessible narratives that can bring these queer and underrepresented voices to a broader audience.