Program Coordinators  Elizabeth is a literary agent with the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc. Previously, she worked for Kimberley Cameron & Associates in their San Francisco office for five years. Elizabeth moved to New York in January 2009 and formed Room to Write with Caren, Michelle and Brandi soon thereafter. She is an avid reader and sometime writer of her own fiction. Her twin passions are for books and the outdoors. Although she finds reading on a picnic blanket, row boat or mountain top difficult, she'll never give up trying. Elizabeth holds a BA from Hamilton College and an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.
 caren@roomtowrite.net
Caren owns and operates her own literary agency (Caren Johnson Literary Agency). She previously worked at Firebrand Literary and the Peter Rubie Literary Agency (now FinePrint Literary Agency). Caren holds a BA from City College of NY. Books have always been at the center of Caren's life. After a fateful conversation about her future (You're not going to become a teacher? But what else would you use a degree in English Lit for?) she decided to figure out a way to work in the book world. She found her calling as an agent and still grins knowing that she reads for a living.
 Michelle is an agent with Folio Lit. She previously worked at Wendy Sherman Associates.
 Brandi Bowles
Brandi is a literary agent at Foundry Literary + Media, where she specializes in nonfiction. She has been a literary agent for three years, and in the publishing world a total of six. She was inspired into the career at age 14, after reading A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing (one of the main characters is an agent). Books have also inspired her to cook, meditate, stop smoking, train her cat, plan a wedding, and approach each day with gratitude, laughter, and joy.
 Jenna Ciongoli As an avid reader since childhood, there was no other possible career option for Jenna Ciongoli except to go into book publishing. She is currently an Associate Editor at the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, where she works primarily on nonfiction books. She loves working closely with her authors to help them develop their books and is a fierce champion for all of them. She can think of no better job to be in – except perhaps if she was given the chance to open up her own combined bookstore and bakery! |