Regina Brooks

Regina Brooks Bio
Ms. Regina Brooks is the founder and CEO of Serendipity Literary Agency NY, the largest African American-owned agency in the US. She has represented and established a diverse base of award-winning clients in adult and young adult fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature.
Currently the President of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA), Brooks is also the co-producer of the People of Publishing Conference, former co-producer of the U.S. Book Show, and a founding member of Literary Agents of Change (LAOC) and the Black Book Accelerator. She is a board member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Women’s Media Group, New York Women in Film and Television, and the National Book Foundation’s Book Council
Brooks is the author of Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Getting Published (Sourcebooks), You Should Really Write a Book: How to Write, Sell, and Market Your Memoir (St. Martin’s Press), and Essence Magazine’s quick pick children’s book, Never Finished, Never Done (Scholastic).
Brooks is a co-publisher with Open Lens, an imprint of Johnny Temple’s (founder of the Brooklyn Book Festival) Akashic Books. She also partnered with poet jessica Care moore and was instrumental in relaunching Moore Black Press as an Amistad/HarperCollins poetry imprint.
Brooks has been highlighted in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, bkreader and the Los Angeles Times. Her awards and honors include Stevie Awards in Business and for Women Entrepreneurs and Digital Book World’s DEI award. The National Association of Professional Women named Brooks Woman of the Year, and Writer’s Digest Magazine named Serendipity Literary Agency one of the top 25 literary agencies.
Prior to her publishing career, Brooks worked as an aerospace engineer and made history as the first African American woman to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from The Ohio State University, and today she’s a pilot and cofounder of Brooklyn Aviation. When she is not agenting, you can find her gardening, fishing, and flying her own plane (always in a dress).