WRITERS OMI at LEDIG HOUSE GUESTS
The Guest Speaker Program brings Writers Omi residents together with literary agents, editors and publishers in an
informal setting. The guest series provides the opportunity for frank discussion on subjects such as the future of world
literature in the marketplace. Moreover, it fosters connections between authors and the industry which supports, and is
supported, by them.
FORMER GUEST SPEAKERS
Alex Abromovich, Managing Editor, Feed Magazine
Lisa Bankoff, Agent, I.C.M
Corinna Barsan, Editor, Grove Atlantic
Sara Bershtel, Editor, Metropolitan Books
Jennifer Carlson, Agent, Henry Dunow
Judy Clain, Editor, Little, Brown & Co.
Chandler Crawford, Agent, Chandler Crawford Literary Agency, Inc.
Jessica Dinneen, Editor, The New England Review
Lee Ellis, Editor, The New Yorker
Barbara Epler, Editor-in-Chief, New Directions Press
Ariane Fink, Scout, Sanford J. Greenburger & Associates
Gary Fisketjon, Senior Editor, Knopf
Warren Frazier, Agent, John Hawkins & Associates
Carol Frederick, Scout, Sanford J. Greenburger & Associates
Sally Woffrod Girand, Brick House Literary Agents
Erika Goldman, Editor, Bellevue Literary Press
Karin Graf, Agent & Founder, Graf & Graf
Nikolaus Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Mare Buch
Marcel Hartages, Editor, Rowohlt Verlag
Stefania Heim, Circumference Magazine
Courtney Hodell, Editor, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
John Hodgman, Agent, Writers House
Amy Holman, Director, Poets & Writers
Violaine Huisman, (Seven Stories)
Amy Hundley, Editor, Grove Atlantic
Nicole Kenealy James, Agent, Aaron Priest Agency
Tim Jung, Marebuch Verlag
Beena Kamlani, Senior Editor, Viking/Penguin
Jennifer Kronovet, Circumference Magazine
Agnes Krup, Book Scout, Sanford Greenburger & Associates
Halimah Marcus, Editor, Electric Literature
Tom Mayer, Editor, WW Norton
Sean McDonald, Editor, Riverhead
Bruce McPherson, Editor, McPherson & Company
Albert Mobilio, Bookforum
Ethan Nosowsky, Editor, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Chris Parris-Lamb, Agent, The Gernert Company
Barbara Perlmutter, Scout, Fischer Verlag
Marleen Riemer, Book Scout, Maria Campbell & Associates
Nina Ryan, Agent, Coles-Ryan Literary Agency
Colin Robinson, Editor, OR Books
Michael Reynolds, Editor, Europa Editions
Jennifer Sahn, Editor, Orion Magazine
Samantha Schnee, Words Without Borders
Jill Schoolman, Archipelago
Heather Schroeder, Agent, International Creative Management
Susan Schulman, Founder, Susan Schulman Literary Agency
Bettina Schwebe, Scout, numerous foreign publishers
John Siciliano, Editor, Penguin Books
Ira Silverberg, Agent, Donadio & Olson, Inc.
Daniel Slager, Harcourt
Paul Slovak, Editor, Viking/Penguin
Ginny Smith, Editor, Penguin Press
Declan Spring, Editor, New Directions
Anna Stein, Agent, Aitkens Alexander & Associates
Lorin Stein, FSG
Nan Talese, Publisher, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Peter Terzian, Newsday
Judith Thurman, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Barbara Tolley, Book Scout, Barbara Tolley & Associates
Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor, The New Yorker
Ann Triestman, Editor, William Morrow
Jessica Wayneright, Agent, The Wayneright Agency
Matt Weiland, Editor, WW Norton
Lauren Wein, Editor, Grove Atlantic
Svante Weyler, Editor-in-Chief, Norstedts Forlag
Drenka Willen, Harcourt
Amy Williams, Collins & McCormick
Rebecca Wolf, Editor, Fence Magazine
Matvei Yankelevich, Editor, Ugly Duckling Presse