Regina Brooks

Regina Brooks is founder and CEO of Serendipity Literary Agency in New York City and leads the largest African American owned agency in the country.

She has established a diverse base of award‑winning clients whose work has appeared in major outlets and on national television.

In 2015 Publishers Weekly nominated her as a PW Star Watch Finalist and she received a Stevie Award in Business.

Writer’s Digest named her agency one of the top 25 literary agencies.

She is President of the AALA, co‑producer of the US Book Show, a founding member and board member of Literary Agents of Change, and a board member of AWP.

She previously held senior editorial positions at John Wiley and Sons and McGraw Hill and earlier worked as an aerospace engineer, the first African American woman to receive a BS in Aerospace Engineering from The Ohio State University.