Name: Lunchtime Business Panel: A Perfect Pairing—The Author-Agent Relationship (Livestream)
Start: 2026-06-18T12:00:00-0600
End: 2026-06-18T13:00:00-0600

Lunchtime Business Panel: A Perfect Pairing—The Author-Agent Relationship (Livestream)

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT

Virtual

Panelists include: Megan O'Grady and Sarah Burnes (The Gernert Company).

As the publishing industry continues to change, the relationship between an author and their agent can make or break a career. Join Megan O’Grady and her agent Sarah Burnes as they talk about the ways they’re navigating the choppy waters of publishing together.

Speakers

Sarah Burnes

Agent, The Gernet Comany

Sarah began her career on the editorial side of publishing, first at Houghton Mifflin, then in the Knopf Group, and last at Little, Brown. She became an agent in 2001, joining The Gernert Company in 2005. As an editor, she acquired and edited literary fiction and non-fiction, and... Read More →

Megan O'Grady

Faculty

Megan O’Grady is a critic and an essayist. She was a writer at large for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where she created the Culture Therapist column. Her reviews and essays about art and life also appear in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Virtual

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