Sharmaine Lovegrove is a celebrated Publishing Consultant working across many areas of storytelling over the past two decades. Most recently, Sharmaine was founder and m.d. of Hachette UK division Dialogue, which focuses on Inclusion, Inspiration, and Innovation. The publishing division is a home for a variety of stories from illuminating voices often missing from the mainstream, and Sharmaine now consults at Hachette as a Cultural Strategist for the group and Publisher at Large for Dialogue.

Sharmaine was the recipient of the Future Book Publishing Person of the Year 2019 and featured on the Grazia Powerlist of 2023. She is inspired by innovative storytelling and has worked in public relations, bookselling, events management, and TV and Film scouting. She was the literary editor of ELLE and established the Dialogue bookshop and creative agency in Berlin as well as a book-to-screen scouting consultancy in London. Sharmaine continues to write for many publications, including Elle, Grazia, FT, Red Magazine, The Guardian, and has twice hosted Front Row on Radio 4 and appeared on BBC Newsnight, Radio 4’s Woman's Hour, and The Today Programme.

Sharmaine is the Chair of Black Cultural Archives and serves on the board of Bookshop.org UK. She is a founding organizer of The Black Writers Guild. Home is London, she lives in Berlin, and her roots are Jamaican—Sharmaine is proud to be part of the African diaspora, and books make her feel part of the world.