Amster is president of Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises. A former editor at Pantheon and Vintage, she has been described in the L.A. Times as "a dogged prospector of the city's literary talent." Her clients include novelists Christopher Noxon, María Amparo Escandón, and Joy Nicholson... Read More →
Lucas is the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, which is best-known as the presenter of the National Book Awards. Before joining the Foundation, she served as the Publisher of Guernica Magazine, Tribeca Film Institute's Director of Education, and has consulted for... Read More →
McDonald is VP, Executive Editor, and Publisher of MCD/FSG and FSG Originals, as well as Director of Digital and Paperback of Publishing at Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nadell is President of the Hill Nadell Literary Agency based in LA. She represents fiction such as debut novelist Kayla Rae Whitaker's "The Animators,” Kate Racculia's novel "Bellweather Weather" and all the work of the late David Foster Wallace. In nonfiction, her writers include... Read More →
Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZYVA. The former San Francisco Chronicle book editor, and a former National Book Critics Circle board member, his work has appeared in VQR, Zocalo, NPR.org, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, and other places. He lives in San Francisco with... Read More →
