Agents and Editors

Alan Bahr is the award-winning and best-selling lead designer and founder of Gallant Knight Games, as well as publisher of upcoming speculative fiction imprint Raven Canticle Press.

Alexis is the Editorial Associate at Torrey House Press. She's passionate about environmental fiction written by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ writers.

Amy Michelle Carpenter is the publisher for Monster Ivy Publishing, a publishing house with award-winning, bestselling fiction. The Kiss List was filmed as a movie with Marvista, starring Megan Suri (Never Have I Ever), Parminder Nagra (ER), Emjay Anthony (Bad Moms) and Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina). Michelle has a MA in Publishing where she studied under Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author in the Star Wars and Dune universes.

Ben Miller-Callihan (he/him/his) joined Handspun Literary Agency as an agent in 2019, after working behind the scenes since the agency’s founding in tech support and bookkeeping roles, as well as more than a decade teaching high school English. A graduate of the University of Kentucky (B.A., English), and New York University (M.A., English Education), he lives in San Diego with his human, canine, and kitchen appliance families.

C.R. Langille spent many a Saturday afternoon watching monster movies with their mother. It wasn't long before they started crafting nightmares to share with their readers. They are a retired, disabled veteran with a deep love for weird and creepy tales. This prompted them to form Timber Ghost Press in January of 2021. They are an affiliate member of the Horror Writer's Association, a member of the League of Utah Writers, and they received their MFA: Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.

Kyro Dean is owner and creative director of Eight Moons Publishing and author of the Rogue Royals series. She also co-authors the Fires of Qaf and owns VanillaGrass.com, a writing resource blog. Kyro has presented at conferences across the nation and loves helping authors and readers find their passions. When not writing, Kyro is playing with her delightfully curious children and talking to her plants, despite their often terrible advice.

The Baldi Agency is an eclectic agency specializing in literary fiction, memoir and cultural history. Baldi believes the strength of the author's voice and the heart of the story to be key when considering new work. Please review www.baldibooks.com

She worked as a cashier at Gotham Book Mart, in the Ballantine Books Publicity Department, as an associate at Candida Donadio & Associates and the Elaine Markson Agency before going out on her own. Baldi graduated from Hampshire College and lives in NYC. The Baldi Agency is an independent and eclectic agency specializing in literary fiction, memoir and cultural history. Baldi loves reading fiction filled with character and voice. The nonfiction list covers topics ranging from the history of New York City garbage; to Greenland ice shelf melts; Hollywood divas; gay male hustling; nautical sayings; social behavior and cultural attitudes in the Victorian novel; cultural history topics include horror, furries, gay film and culture, men's beards and awkwardness; biography, urban tantric sex practice; dog behavior; foodie culture; gender/queer/trans studies and a host of powerful memoirs.
Baldi is always looking for new work.
Interdisciplinary topics are key.

Rhett is an editor for Monster Ivy and holds an MFA from UNR. Monster Ivy Publishing is a publishing house with award-winning, bestselling fiction. The Kiss List was filmed as a movie with Marvista, starring Megan Suri (Never Have I Ever), Parminder Nagra (ER), Emjay Anthony (Bad Moms) and Lachlan Watson (Chilling Adventures of Sabri). We focus on "edgy, clean" fiction at a PG-13 or less rating.

Ronald Gerber joined Lowenstein Associates as an agent 2019, after several years in literary scouting at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates and Maximum Films & Management and supporting two agents at Writers House. Ronald is a proud graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock and Clark University. His clients include Sonja Thomas, whose debut SIR FIG NEWTON & THE SCIENCE OF PERSISTENCE (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster) is a 2023 Oregon Book Awards finalist, and Lorissa Rinehart, whose biography FIRST TO THE FRONT published from St. Martin’s Press in July, 2023. Follow him on Twitter @RGerberAgent.

A life-long bibliophile, Stacey’s experience includes working as a Field Representative for Scholastic Book Fairs, managing at Chapters/Indigo stores, freelance editing, and serving on the organizing committee of When Words Collide (A Festival for Readers and Writers). She joined The Rights Factory in 2018 and represents fiction and nonfiction authors across age categories and across genres. Stacey is drawn to strong narrative voices, innovative storytelling, feeling all the feels, laughing all the laughs, and also the dark and the weird.

Willow Dawn Becker is an author, marketing director, and award-nominated editor as well as the CEO of Weird Little Worlds Press. She has hundreds of publications about education, marketing, business, and has both fiction and nonfiction publications to her credit. You can find her fiction at Black Fox Literary Magazine, Space & Time Magazine, Irreantum, and the Story Hour Podcast, among others. Her first novel, Leto's Children was released in 2022, and her next novel, Leto's Legacy, will be released in December 2023. She lives in Utah and dreams about a world where summer never ends.