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Lunchtime Business Panel: Perfect Pairing (Livestream)
Tuesday June 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
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The publishing industry is complicated, constantly changing, and seemingly mysterious, so the relationship between an author and her agent is an integral component of a successful career. Join author Christina Rivera and Evanthia Bromiley and their agents, Julie Stevenson and Jennifer Lyons as they talk about how they’re navigating the choppy waters of publishing together.
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Shana Kelly

Panelist
Shana Kelly was a literary agent at the William Morris Agency in New York and London for ten years. She currently works as a book editor, writer, and publishing consultant, and teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. In 2024, she won an Emmy for writing A Towering Task: The Story... Read More →
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Christina Rivera

Christina Rivera is a Pushcart Prize-winning essayist, author, and environmental writer from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Her work has appeared in Orion Magazine, The Cut, Kenyon Review, Terrain.org, Bat City Review, and elsewhere. Christina’s... Read More →
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Evanthia (Evie) Bromiley

Evanthia Bromiley is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the recipient of scholarships from the Aspen Institute, a Lighthouse Fellowship, a Lisel Mueller scholarship, and Elizabeth George and Carol Houck-Smith awards. She is the 2025 Grace Paley Fellow for... Read More →
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Jennifer Lyons

Agent
Jennifer Lyons was a senior agent for sixteen years before she decided to open up her own literary agency. She represents numerous award-winning authors. The awards her clients have received include the Nobel Prize, The Pulitzer for both Fiction and Nonfiction, the National Book Award... Read More →
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Julie Stevenson

Agent
Julie Stevenson is a literary agent with Massie, McQuilkin & Altman in New York. She represents literary and upmarket fiction, suspense, memoir, graphic novels, narrative nonfiction, young adult fiction. She is drawn to storytelling with unforgettable characters, an authorial command... Read More →
Tuesday June 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Zoom
  Publishing/Career

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