Kelli Agodon

Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of two books of poems, Small Knots and the chapbook Geography.  Her work has been published in journals such as the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, Notre Dame Review, the North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Image, and Contemporary Verse.  She has also been featured on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac” with Garrison Keillor. She is the recipient of two Artist Trust GAP grants, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the William Stafford Award, the Atlantic Monthly’s Poetry Prize as well as a Puffin Foundation grant for her work as an editor in the international poetry broadside series:  The Making of Peace. Kelli was born and educated in the Seattle area, she’s a graduate of the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writers Program where she received her MFA.  Currently, she edits the literary journal Crab Creek Review.  Visit her website at:  www.agodon.com.

 

Tricia Brown

Tricia Brown worked as an Alaskan journalist before entering book publishing as a freelance editor and author. Clients included The Mountaineers Books, Epicenter Press, Alaska Northwest Books, WHERE magazine, and Discovery/Insight Guides. After two decades in Alaska, she moved south to Portland. For five years, Tricia acquired and edited dozens of regional books—cookbooks, travel guides, history, biography, and children’s books—as acquisitions editor for Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Among her favorites: Salt & Pepper at the Pike Place Market, Big-Enough Anna, Recess at 20 Below, Kumak’s Fish, and Berry Magic. Today, Tricia’s back at work as a freelance editor of regional books, and continuing to write. She is the author of four children’s books: the award-winning Children of the Midnight Sun, Groucho’s Eyebrows, The Itchy Little Musk Ox, and her newest, Alaskan Night Before Christmas (Pelican, 2008). Another eleven books for adults include an Alaska Highway travel guide, books on dog mushing, and Alaska reference. She holds a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing. 

Andrea Hurst

Andrea Hurst, President of Andrea Hurst Literary Management, works with both major and regional publishing houses, and her client list includes emerging new voices and New York Times best-selling authors. Andrea represents high profile adult nonfiction and well crafted fiction. In addition to working in the publishing field for over 20 years, Andrea is a published author, skilled acquisition and development editor, speaker, and literary judge for writers' conferences. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Expressive Arts with a focus in creative writing and currently teaches for the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program and through the CSUS Osher program. Her areas of expertise include sales, promotion, and production in the publishing and entertainment fields. With years of experience in all areas of publishing, Andrea offers professional insight into the business and works with motivated authors to edit, polish, and perfect their proposal and manuscript.  www.andreahurst.com

Gary Luke

Gary Luke is the publisher of Sasquatch Books, a west coast regional publisher in Seattle.  Authors he has worked with include Gus Lee (China Boy), Bruce Barcott (The Measure of a Mountain), Shawn Wong (American Knees), Jana Harris (The Dust of Everyday Life),  Nancy Pearl (Book Lust), Jon Winokur (The Traveling Curmudgeon),  Art Wolfe (Pacific Northwest, etc.), Lynda Barry (One Hundred Demons), Ketzel Levine (Plant This!), Ann Lovejoy (Naturalistic Gardening), and Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds).  Prior to joining Sasquatch Books, he was an editor at Simon & Schuster, Plume/Dutton/Penguin, and Dell/Delacorte in New York.  Gary Luke grew up in Seattle and graduated with a BA in English from Western Washington University. www.sasquatchbooks.com

Elizabeth Wales

A boutique agency based in Seattle, Wales Literary Agency represents an eclectic list of narrative nonfiction, and mainstream and literary fiction. The Agency's first interest is in compelling and well-crafted stories, whether in fiction or nonfiction -- with a special interest in writers from the West, Northwest, and Alaska. Principal agent, Elizabeth Wales has been with the Agency since it was established in 1990. She is a native of the New York metropolitan area, worked in publishing in New York City and moved to Seattle in 1983. She is a member of the Association of Authors Representatives (AAR). The Agency represents about 65 clients, including many award-winning clients such as Sinan Antoon, Bruce Barcott, Sheila Bender, Julia Boyd, Karen Brennan, Lesley Choyce, Tsai Chih Chung, Chrystos, Natalie Fobes, Ellen Forney, David Mas Masumoto, Laurenn McCubbin, Hilton Obenzinger, Dan Savage, Duff Wilson, and several independent presses. Agency titles have appeared on the NY Times, Publishers Weekly and other national bestseller lists. Elizabeth is a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives, Inc. (AAR).  www.waleslit.com