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Meet Morgan

Morgan (Hoit) Pager is the Marketing and Social Media Director at Atria Books and the bookworm and content creator behind @nycbookgirl. Born and raised in Summit, New Jersey, she attended Kent Place School and graduated in 2012. From there, she was off to Duke University to double major in English and Theater Studies, class of 2016. In the summer of 2016, Morgan moved to New York City to pursue a career in theatrical producing.

From 2016 to 2019, Morgan worked as an associate at Jill Furman productions, where she assisted in the producing of new plays and musicals. In the summer of 2017, she launched @nycbookgirl, an online platform for her to share what she was reading and her life in NYC. In 2019, Morgan accepted a Marketing Manager position at Avid Reader Press, where she was the voice of their social media and worked on marketing campaigns including Three Women, The Only Plane in the Sky, Group, and Infinite Country. She then joined the marketing team at Ballantine Bantam and Dell as a Senior Marketing Manager, where she managed campaigns for authors such as Rachel Lindsay, Josie Silver, and Stephanie Foo.

In April 2022, Morgan joined the team at Atria Books, where she oversees all of Atria’s social media presence, as well as working on campaigns for Atria authors, including Colleen Hoover, Rebecca Serle, Katy Hays, Jamie Ford, Elena Armas, and Hannah Grace.

Morgan lives on the Upper West Side with her husband, Dylan, and their cat, Cleo. She loves planners, Soulcycle, iced pistachio lattes with oat milk, cooking, yoga, catching up with friends, playing board games, and walking absolutely everywhere. She is a Virgo.