Serendipity Literary Agency CEO and AALA President Regina Brooks is one of five publishing professionals chosen by Publishers Weekly as a 2024 Person of the Year.

“Drawing on her first career working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Regina Brooks is bringing the innovative spirit of an engineer to the publishing industry… Since joining the Association of American Literary Agents board in 2019, Brooks has played a key role in modernizing the organization by establishing a communications committee and transitioning to a more inclusive membership model.”

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Moore Black Press, originally founded in 1997 by Detroit Poet Laureate jessica Care moore, has relaunched as an imprint of Amistad/HarperCollins, celebrating its first publication: Every Where Alien by poet Brad Walrond. Now co-run by moore and Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, MBP is committed to publishing revolutionary works by leading and emerging Black voices in poetry and the performing arts.

Diane Richards, executive director of the Harlem Writers Guild, was celebrated with a cover feature in Publishers Weekly in honor of her new book Ella. The book, a novel based on the life of Ella Fitzgerald, also received a Publishers Weekly starred review and was chosen for the “Sarah Selects” book club by Amazon Books Editorial Director Sarah Gelman.