Speaker

Marie Campbell is an agent with Transatlantic Literary Agency, specializing in fiction for ages 8+. Her clients and authors have been the recipients of numerous prizes, including the Governor General’s Award, the CLA Book of the Year Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award. After 20 years in the children’s book business, she's sat on many sides of the desk: as agent, acquisitions editor and rights manager at HarperCollins Publishers, as publicist at Penguin Books Canada. Marie joined TLA in London, U.K., and has been agenting based in Toronto since 2005. She represents writers from Canada, the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.