Kovacs initiated Walden’s involvement in publishing by producing companion books based on James Cameron’s Ghosts of the Abyss (2003). From there, she went to on establish and manage Walden’s two co-publishing partnerships. The first, with Penguin Books for Young Readers from 2004-2008, resulted most notably in the New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winner Savvy by Ingrid Law. Since 2008, Kovacs has been responsible for Walden’s collaboration with the HarperCollins Children’s Books middle-grade imprint Walden Pond Press. Walden Pond Press has published more than sixty books, including National Book Award nominees The Real Boy by Anne Ursu and Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder as well as the Global World Read Aloud selection A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold and the acclaimed, multi-award winning Ms. Bixby’s Last Day by John David Anderson.

Kovacs began her career at Children’s Television Workshop, now Sesame Workshop, where she was editor of Sesame Street Magazine. She was also an editor in Scholastic Inc.’s magazine group and later spearheaded that company’s entrance into interactive media.

Just prior to joining Walden, Kovacs was Editor-in-Chief of Turnstone Publishing Group, producers and publishers of documentary-style children’s books, educational materials and websites created in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and others. She is also author of more than thirty children’s books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Kovacs enjoys mentoring new writers at Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program, at Simmons University’s MFA in Writing for Children program, and at the Highlights Foundation. She also serves as a volunteer grant writer for Our Sisters’ School, a middle school in New Bedford, Massachusetts that provides an impactful, experience-based education to a diverse community of girls from underserved families.