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...
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...
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...
