Beth Phelan
Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency
Likely Closed
Updated: 1/31/2026
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Beth Phelan has been working in publishing since 2010.
A lifelong reader, she’s been caught reading by flashlight in hotel closets while on vacation and finishing stories in lieu of returning friends’ calls.
She is a winner of the inaugural CBC Diversity Outstanding Achievement Award, a Publisher’s Weekly Notable Person of the Year Reader’s Pick, twice-nominated for The Ignyte Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre, and a Publisher’s Weekly Star Watch Honoree.
She’s been a literary agent at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency since 2017.
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