Directory of Past Faculty

  Here’s a directory since our website’s 2006 launch (the workshop’s fourth year). Agency and publisher names refer to the year in which our workshop took place. To see past faculty bios, click on a workshop year.

2020

Agent Hannah Mann (Writers House); Agent Laurel Symonds (The Bent Agency)

2019

Agent Kari Sutherland (Bradford Literary); Editor Samantha Gentry (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers); Editor Mora Couch (Holiday House)

2018

Senior Agent John Cusick (Vice President, Folio Literary); Senior Editor Krista Vitola (Simon & Schuster), Author Chris Crutcher

2017

Senior Agent Brianne Johnson (Writers House); Senior Editor Katherine Harrison (Knopf BFYR)

2016

Agent Peter Knapp (Park Literary); Senior Editor Kate Farrell (Henry Holt)

2015

Agent Stephen Barr (Writers House); Executive Editor Kristen Pettit (HarperCollins)

2014

Agent Scott Treimel (STNY); Associate Publishing Director Melanie Cecka Nolan (Knopf BFYR)

2013

Agent Fiona Kenshole (Transatlantic Agency); Executive Editor Regina Griffin (Egmont USA)

2012

Agent Emily Sylvan Kim (President, Prospect Agency); Senior VP-Publisher Simon Boughton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Roaring Brook Press; First Second Books)

2011

Agents Joan Slattery (Pippin Properties) and Taylor Martindale (Full Circle Literary); VP-Publisher and Executive Editor Susan Van Metre (Abrams BFYR/Amulet Books)

2010

Agent Ted Malawer (Upstart Crow Literary); Senior Editor Kate Harrison (Dial Books for Young Readers); Author-Consultant and CBI Publisher Laura Backes

2009

Agent Stephen Fraser (Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency); Senior Editor Erin Clarke (Knopf BFYR); Author Marion Dane Bauer

2008

Agent Edward Necarsulmer (McIntosh & Otis, Inc.); Executive Editor Anne Hoppe (HarperCollins)

2007

Agent Andrea Cascardi (Transatlantic Literary Agency); Senior Editor Julie Romeis (Bloomsbury); Author Barbara Shoup

2006

Agent Jennifer Rofe (Andrea Brown Literary Agency); Editors Deborah Noyes Wayshack (Candlewick Press) and Joy Neaves (Front Street Books); Author-consultant Martha Alderson

2003-2005
Agents Andrea Brown (ABLA), Erin Murphy (EMLA), Kendra Marcus (Bookstop Literary)
Editors Andrea Welch (Harcourt), Reka Simonsen (Henry Holt)