The Writer and the Agent: A Conversation Featuring Kirstin Valdez Quade and Denise Shannon

A panel discussion about the agent/author relationship and contemporary publishing. Kirstin Valdez Quade's most recent book, The Five Wounds, won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. The Denise Shannon Literary Agency is a New York-based boutique agency with a distinguished list of fiction and nonfiction authors.