Ms. Regina Brooks is the founder
and President of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC. Equally at home in the
technical world of engineering as in the literary world of writing and editing,
Ms. Brooks has over a decade of experience in senior positions at major
publishing houses including John Wiley &
Sons Inc. and the McGraw-Hill Companies.
She is a graduate of the Howard University Publishing Institute in
Washington DC. Prior to her
publishing career she worked as an aerospace engineer for NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and made history as the first African American
woman to receive a Bachelors of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the
Ohio State University. She is also
a graduate of The School of the Arts High School in Rochester, NY.
Brooks
is the Executive Director of the Y.
B. Literary Foundation, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to
promote the reading of literature as a meaningful, lifelong activity and
transformative experience for youth. She serves on the board of the Soul
Mountain Literary Retreat, and the Association of Freelancers in
Publishing. In 2004, she was a finalist for the Stevie Award for Women
Entrepreneurs and was honored as the NY Urban Leagues Rising Star. She is listed
in International Who's Who under the categories of Engineering, Technology,
Entrepreneurs, and Professional Management. Ms. Brooks is a member of the
Association of Author Representatives AAR,
has edited over 50 published books, and is the author of the Essence Magazine
2004 Quick Pick children’s book Never
Finished! Never Done!, published by Scholastic Inc.