Regina Brooks

Ms. Regina Brooks is the founder and CEO of Serendipity Literary Agency NY, the largest African American-owned agency in the US. She has represented and established a diverse base of award-winning clients in adult and young adult fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature.Currently the President of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA), Brooks is also the co-producer of the People of Publishing Conference, former co-producer of the U.S. Book Show, and a founding member of Literary Agents of Change (LAOC) and the Black Book Accelerator. She is a board member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Women’s Media Group, New York Women in Film and Television, and the National Book Foundation’s Book Council

Brooks is the author of Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Getting Published (Sourcebooks), You Should Really Write a Book: How to Write, Sell, and Market Your Memoir (St. Martins Press), and Essence Magazines quick pick children’s book, Never Finished, Never Done (Scholastic).