Authors
Sandra Parsons worked at The Times and edited T2 for 8 years, before becoming a columnist at the Daily Mail. She has now been the Daily Mail’s Literary Editor for 15 years. She is also a qualified yoga instructor. She lives in London with her family.
On behalf of New River Books.
Poppy Jamie is an author, international speaker, broadcaster and leading entrepreneur. She hosts one of the UK’s top spiritual wellness podcasts, Unwind with Poppy. Poppy was awarded the Point of Light honour by the former British Prime Minister for her work in mental health. She is a Global Goals advocate for the United Nations and a Forbes’ 30 under 30 recognised entrepreneur. Poppy is also a graduate of the London School of Economics and has completed a postgraduate degree in Psychosynthesis.
On behalf of New River Books.
Dr. Aziza Sesay is a GP, GP Educator, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Host, Speaker and Health Content Creator. She runs a health platform called ‘Talks with Dr. Sesay’ sharing evidence-based health information on a variety of topics specifically women’s health, cancer awareness, mental health and health inequity.
Dr. Sesay is Vice Chair and Creative Director of Black Female Doctors UK. She is an Ambassador for the charities Eve Appeal, Wellbeing of Women, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) Hatfield Vision, and the Everywoman Festival. She is a member of the World Health Organisation Fides group and is one of the select creators of the first YouTube Health Partner Programme. She is also on the YouTube IQ Creator Programme with a select few who create videos targeting underrepresented communities.
Represented by Thérèse Coen.
Virginia Reeves is the author of The Behavior of Love and Work Like Any Other, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers and currently teaches at Helena College. She lives in Montana with her family and three-legged dog.
Represented by Stephanie Cabot.
Min-ji Yoo is a fortuneteller, master of philology and astrology, all skills drawn from the Korean tradition of shamanism. She inherited her intuitive gifts from her grandmother.
In her twenties she worked in the Korean TV industry, where she observed how successful people harnessed their luck. She then went out her own to become a successful producer and publisher.
A lifelong student of luck and fate, she is now an admired advisor on attaining wealth in all its forms through the psychology of luck.
David Le Bailly studied at Sciences Po before joining Paris Match as a reporter. He now writes for Le Nouvel Obs and has three books to his credit: Mitterrand’s Captive, the story of the secret mistress of France’s former President; The Other Rimbaud, exploring the tragic life of Arthur Rimbaud’s brother; and Hotel de la Folie, where he remembers the beloved grandmother who raised him, her shocking suicide, and the complexities of family legacies.
Emma Garman, a Brighton-based writer and critic, has been a columnist for the Paris Review and a contributor to Literary Review, The Daily Beast, History News Network, and many other publications. She has an MA in creative writing from the City College of New York and an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London. The Kindness of Strangers is her debut novel.
Represented by Cara Lee Simpson.
David Baerwald has spent more than three decades as a songwriter, musician, performer, and film composer. He has collaborated with, among others, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Bruce Springsteen, Baz Lurhmann, and Hans Zimmer. Born in Oxford, Ohio, Baerwald currently lives in the Hudson Valley.
On behalf of Spiegel & Grau.
Callan Wink has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays appear widely, including in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Playboy, Men’s Journal and The Best American Short Stories. His first book, Dog Run Moon, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention.
On behalf of Spiegel & Grau.
Michael Kleber-Diggs is the author of Worldly Things, which was awarded the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Kansas and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Rain Taxi, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Midway Review, North Dakota Quarterly and a few anthologies. Michael teaches poetry and creative non-fiction through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.
On behalf of Spiegel & Grau.