Karly Dizon
Virtual Conference Karly Dizon is an agent at Fuse Literary building universes with stories that matter. Karly is aggressively building her client list to boost and give visibility to marginalized voices, experiences, history, culture, folklore, and mythology. She believes that children should be ab
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Danya Kukafka
Virtual Conference Danya Kukafka is the author of the nationally bestselling novels NOTES ON AN EXECUTION and GIRL IN SNOW. Her books have been reviewed favorably in outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and have been translated into over a dozen languages
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Bridget Smith
In-Person Conference Bridget Smith has been an agent at JABberwocky Literary Agency since 2019. Her focus is on character-driven, voicey fiction, particularly science fiction & fantasy, historical fiction, and young adult in all genres. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Brown Univer
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Nour Sallam
In-Person Conference Nour Sallam is an Associate Literary Agent at P.S. Literary Agency representing adult fiction and nonfiction. Nour has previously worked in editing, podcasting, communications, and journalism. She got her start at the University of British Columbia where she studied English Lite
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Joanna Rasheed
In-Person Conference Joanna Rasheed joined Ultra Literary after interning at Triada US and working as an assistant at Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency. Joanna graduated from Virginia Tech with a BA in English with a dual focus in Creative Writing and Professional Writing. She is obsessed with books, t
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Mary C. Moore
In-Person Conference Mary C. Moore has represented the Nebula-nominated The Unbroken by C.L. Clark (Orbit, 2021); and Indie Next and Book of the Month pick The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker (Inkyard, 2021). Mary’s first career was in field biology, which took her around the world, from Ghana
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Mira Landry
Mira Landry is an Associate Literary Agent with Corvisiero Literary Agency. She’s dedicated to building writing and literary communities through events and educational programming, and co-hosts a podcast analyzing recently published books using Literary Forensics called Writers Who Read. Mira is s
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Sally M. Kim
In-Person Conference Based in San Francisco, California, Sally M. Kim is an Associate Agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. She is looking to represent a wide range of children’s book authors, illustrators, and author-illustrators from picture books up through middle grade. Drawn to stories with
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Melanie Figueroa
In-Person Conference Melanie Figueroa is a literary agent at Root Literary with over a decade of experience in the book publishing industry and an active member of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA). She earned an M.S. in Creative Writing and Book Publishing from Portland State Unive
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Caitlin Blasdell
In-Person Conference Caitlin Blasdell has been a literary agent with Liza Dawson Associates since 2002. When she started agenting, she focused on SF and fantasy, but she has since expanded to represent a wide range of commercial fiction including thrillers, romance of all kinds, women’s fictio
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Nephele Tempest
In-Person Conference Nephele Tempest joined The Knight Agency in January, 2005, opening the Los Angeles-area office. As an agent, she loves to help her clients hone their skills and build their careers. Nephele initially worked on the editorial side of the publishing business before leaving to try o
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Donald Maass
In-Person Conference Donald Maass founded the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York in 1980. He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004), The Fire in Fiction (2009), The Breakout Novelist (2011), Writing 21st Centur
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Laura Bradford
In-Person Conference Laura Bradford established the Bradford Literary Agency in 2001. She considers herself an editorial-focused agent and takes a hands-on approach to developing proposals and manuscripts with her authors for the most appropriate markets. Laura’s clients include both debut and
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Laurel Symonds
In-Person Conference Laurel began her publishing career in the editorial department of HarperCollins Children’s Books. She also worked in the marketing department at a small publishing house, in a library, and as a bookseller at one of the nation’s best independent bookstores. She began agenting
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Carolyn Forde
In-Person Conference Carolyn is a Senior Agent and Partner at Transatlantic Agency. She is also President of the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents and the Chair of the Toronto International Festival of Authors IV Programme. She reads widely and represents a range of upmarket comme
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Amy Bishop-Wycisk
In-Person Conference Amy Bishop-Wycisk joined Trellis Literary Management in 2023 after eight years with Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. She represents a wide-ranging list in fiction, nonfiction, and YA. Across the board, she has a special interest in underrepresented voices, especially from the AA
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Michael Carr
In Person Conference Michael Carr is a literary agent with a background in editing and writing, working from a home base in San Francisco. He represents writers in a variety of genres, with a special emphasis on historical fiction, women’s fiction, science fiction and fantasy, memoir, narrative no
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