Kao Kalia Yang

Kao Kalia Yang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and came to America at the age of six. She is the author of The Latehomecomer, The Song Poet, Yang Warriors, and most recently, Where Rivers Part. She also coedited What God Is Honored Here? and is the author of a collective memoir about refugee lives called Somewhere in the Unknown World. Find out more at KaoKaliaYang.com, and follow her on X (Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram.

Wendy Johnson

Dr. Johnson is an activist, clinician, and writer whose career includes stints scaling up HIV treatment in Mozambique, overseeing an urban public health department in Cleveland, and directing a community clinic in Santa Fe. She currently practices family and addiction medicine for El Centro Family Health and consults with community clinics in Appalachian Ohio. Her first book, Kinship Medicine: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves, is out now from North Atlantic Books. Dr. Johnson grew up along the shores of Lake Erie in Buffalo, Cleveland, and Toledo but now resides outside of Santa Fe in a community that includes two dogs, many human neighbors, a few bears, and countless coyotes and cottonwoods.

Cassidy Randall

Cassidy Randall is an award-winning writer who tells stories on the environment, adventure, and people who expand human potential. Her stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, the New York Times, TIME, Atavist, Outside, and Men’s Journal, among others. She wrote The Hard Parts with Paralympian Oksana Masters, which won an Alex Award from the American Library Association and was listed as one of the best sports books of the year by the Times. Her work has been awarded the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal in Adventure Writing, short-listed for the True Story Award, and included in The Year’s Best Sports Writing. She lives in Montana.

Debra Eckerling

Debra Eckerling is The Book Proposal Expert: an award-winning author, podcaster, and book proposal strategist who helps experts, executives, and entrepreneurs turn their ideas into compelling book proposals that get interest from agents and publishers. She hosts GoalChat, Taste Buds with Deb, and the Book Proposal Podcast and is the founder of the Write On Online community for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs. Deb is the author of Your Goal Guide (IPPY Silver Medal, Self Help) and 52 Secrets for Goal-Setting and Goal-Getting. Learn more at TheBookProposalExpert.com and connect with Deb on LinkedIn.

Amanda Bernardi

Highline Literary Collective

While her interests are broad, Amanda is especially seeking to promote under-represented voices with growing platforms. Amanda champions books with fresh ideas paired with practical elements and actionable takeaways, those that inform as much as they inspire. Her specialties include compelling prescriptive and narrative nonfiction in categories including social & culture issues, feminism/parenthood, cooking, pop culture, environmentalism, and mental health & wellness.

Robert Brewer

Writer's Digest

Robert Lee Brewer is a Senior Editor with Writer's Digest and has more than 20 years of experience helping writers write better and get published. That includes editing more than 20 editions, including the most recent edition, of Writer's Market (as well as editing various editions of Guide to Literary Agents, Poet's Market, and more).

Madeline Wallace

Sanford J. Greenburger Associates

Madeline Wallace represents fiction and nonfiction projects. In nonfiction, she's looking for narrative nonfiction that explores some facet of pop culture, particularly celebrity and/or fandom, through a critical lens; intimate narratives that interrogate institutions and systems; books that grapple with the relationship between food and body image; literary memoirs that excavate surprising personal histories.

Kathryn Willms

The Rights Factory

Kathryn Willms (she/her) is a literary agent representing adult nonfiction. She is currently focused on narrative nonfiction, cultural and social investigations, biography, history, sports, nature/environmental topics, lifestyle, and food and drink. She is particularly interested in manuscripts with a unique voice, topic, or point of view that changes or challenges the way we see the world, and she is actively seeking authors whose voices have traditionally been under-represented in publishing.