Traci O'Dea, Poet Traci O’Dea is a Senior Lecturer of English at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College O’Dea and the author of two poetry collections: Waving (Assure Press, 2021) and Restricted Movement (Scotland Street Press, 2021). The audio book for Restricted Movement, narrated by the author, was released in...
Elise Dillsworth, Literary Agent Elise Dillsworth became a literary agent in 2012. Previously she was a commissioning editor at Virago Press, an imprint of Little Brown Book Group. She co-founded the Diversity in Publishing Network in 2004, which received the New Venture Award from Women in Publishing in 2005. She represents...
Zola Mashariki, Producer Zola Mashariki is a senior executive, independent producer, and Hollywood industryveteran with over twenty years of experience creating award-winning content for film,television, and audio. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Ms.Mashariki spent 15 years at Searchlight Pictures (formerly Fox Searchlight), where shewas Senior Vice...
Celeste Mohammed, Writer CELESTE MOHAMMED is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer and the author of “Pleasantview”(Ig, Jacaranda, 2021; Ouida, 2022) which won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize for Fiction. Celeste...
