Amy Brewer is the Vice President, a senior literary agent, and a subsidiary rights agent at Metamorphosis Literary Agency. Her intuitive human understanding can help writers bridge the communication gap and jump into the publishing world. Her experience in the mental health field and yoga training help her guide and assist clients with stress and anxiety in this highly competitive industry. All of this is pulled together with a multi-tasking and hyper-organized brain, so that at the end of every day she feels accomplished and grateful. She is seeking captivating stories of human connection and books that touch her heart. 

Romance, women’s/commercial fiction, cozy mysteries, LGBTQIA+, and YA. 

Elisa Saphier is an agent with MacGregor & Luedeke where she is the exception, looking for nonreligious nonfiction and upmarket genre fiction (especially mystery/thriller and romance) to balance out her mostly literary list. She represents upper middle grade through adult (fiction and nonfiction) and she is especially eager to work with marginalized writers to help equalize the publishing industry and to get their stories out into the world for others to read (#representationmatters). She lives in Portland, OR with her wife and son where she is always behind on queries but where she is constantly reading.

Find out more about what she’s looking for here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/elisa-saphier/

Bonnie Swanson (the agent not the cartoon character!) is a retired elementary school teacher who lives in Southern Illinois. A Member of AALA and the SFWA, she represents authors who cover all the age groups from picture books through adult manuscripts. She has a husband, three grown children, two bonus daughters, one granddaughter (who she doesn’t spoil AT ALL!) and three fur-babies who think they need to eat all the cat food all the time. 

Kiana (Kiki) Nguyen started in publishing in 2015 with an internship with Wunderkind PR, independent book publishing PR company, working on campaigns with authors such as Ernest Cline. There, she discovered a practical industry for her codependent love of fiction. She joined Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2016 as an intern and is now an agent building her own list.

Kiki represents young adult and adult fiction across genres, with a particular hunger for Horror and genre-Thrillers and a focus on queer and BIPOC authors. She has represented New York Times, USA Today, Sunday Times bestsellers, and award winning titles.

List of genres I accept: YA (all genres)  Adult: SFF, Horror, Domestic Suspense Thrillers (think Gone Girl), Romance, Women’s Fiction (specifically BIPOC queer normative characters & arcs)

Vanessa Aguirre is an editor at St. Martin’s Press and the co-director of Latinx in Publishing’s Writers Mentorship Program. Prior to landing at Macmillan, she was a fiction editor at Hugo-winning magazine Strange Horizons. She hails from Texas and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she originally studied clinical psychology before realizing she could follow her passion for stories (and the people who create them) into a career. 

Jéla Lewter joined Saga Press in October 2021, bringing with her a love of all things speculative, sci-fi, fantasy and horror in their many genre-bending forms. Her titles include the Four Winds series by Alexandria Warwick, Not With a Bang by Temi Oh, and She Isn’t Herself Tonight by Hailey Piper. Her passionate interest in SFFH and the unique ways in which each critiques society are key to the curation of her list. She seeks fiction that explores the darker side of human nature, shines light on marginalized voices and poses questions without clear cut answers.