Patricia Gift is Vice President, Editorial at Hay House and former editorial director at One Spirit and Quality Paperback Book Clubs. Patricia Gift’s editorial responsibilities at Hay House include acquisitions, editorial cross-platform development, brand and talent management. Authors she has brought to Hay House include James Altucher, Kris Carr, Stephen Cope, Jonathan Fields, Gopi Kallayil, Frank Lipman, Bruce Lipton,  Nick Ortner, Tara Stiles, and Robert Thurman. Before joining Hay House in 2007 Patricia Gift was associate publisher at The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, and managed authors including Deepak Chopra, Suze Orman, and Martha Stewart.

The policy at Hay House is that all submissions must come via a literary agent.