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Karen Rinaldi

2019 Speaker
Karen Rinaldi

KAREN RINALDI is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012, and a senior vice president at HarperCollins Publishers. Rinaldi wrote the story for Maggie’s Plan, the 2015 film inspired by her novel, The End of Men. Her non-fiction work has appeared in The New York Times, Time.com, Oprah.com, Prevention, Glamour.com, LitHub, and The Inertia, among others. Her non-fiction book, It’s Great to Suck at Something, was published by Simon&Schuster/Atria in May 2019. She and her family split their time between New York and New Jersey. @suckatsomething