Visit with a Literary Agent: Rayhané Sanders
- Sponsor
- Creative Writing, Department of English
- Speaker
- Rayhané Sanders
Join us for a professional development presentation from a visiting literary agent! Rayhané Sanders will give a glimpse at the nuts and bolts of publishing, working in publishing, query letters, and other aspects of the literary trade. This will include some do's and don'ts and plenty of time for questions and answers.
Rayhané Sanders is a literary agent and independent book editor with over 16-years experience in book publishing. She began her career at Newsweek Magazine, before moving to book publishing, holding positions at Dutton and Gotham Books (imprints of Penguin Group USA, now Penguin Random House) and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Moving from the publisher to the agency side of the business, she worked at William Morris Endeavor and boutique firm WSK Management, where she had the privilege of working with such bestselling and award-winning authors as Amor Towles, Jennifer Haigh, Daniel James Brown, Kate Jacobs, Kitty Kelley, Jane Pauley, Bob Dotson, and many more.