Sharmaine Lovegrove, born in London in 1981, is the publisher of Dialogue Books, part of the Little, Brown Book Group and Hachette UK. She has worked in public relations, bookselling, event management and TV scouting. Lovegrove was literary editor at ELLE and set up her own bookshop and creative agency. She is on the board of The Black Cultural Archives and cultural event organiser The Watershed. She is also one of the founding members of the Black Writers Guild. Lovegrove lives in Berlin.