Risa Kessler is a publishing representative for Paramount Consumer Products. She manages their publishing program, including books, magazines, and comics.
Based out of New York, she has been in the industry for over 35 years, the last decade with Paramount Studios, evaluating publishing opportunities, soliciting and negotiating deals with licensees and working closely with the editors on each of these publishing properties.
She has also worked as an editor, including work on the 1991 anthology Once Upon a Time: A Treasury of Fantasies and Fairy Tales.