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Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
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Founder + Literary Agent
Monica Odom founded Odom Media Management in 2019, after working in publishing for nearly a decade, including roles as agent at Liza Dawson Associates and Bradford Literary Agency. She earned her M.S. in Publishing: Digital & Print Media from New York University, and has a B.A. in English from Montclair State University. She was also schooled in bookselling and event coordinating at her local indie, Watchung Booksellers.
Monica is a member of the Association of American Literary Agents where she has served on the Board, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, and as President of the DEI non-profit Literary Agents of Change. She currently teaches a publishing course at her alma mater MSU, in conjunction with the Montclair Literary Festival. She is dedicated to the holistic and intentional expansion of intersectional diversity, equity, inclusivity and justice in the publishing industry and beyond.
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Associate Agent
Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland is an Associate Agent at Odom Media Management. Throughout her career, she has worked in independent media aimed at providing tools, resources, and frameworks that support movement-building. Embracing the expanse of multimedia across book and digital media, she has worked with award-winning and bestselling authors, scholars, activists, and speakers on topics of decolonization, intersectionality, feminism/s, economic justice and racial capitalism, labor movements, racial and gender justice, identity, and community organizing. She earned her B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and M.A. from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in American Studies focusing her research on representations of women of color in media.
Driven by her political commitment to producing media in support of collective liberation, Shabnam is most interested in working on books that are agitating and fearlessly challenging systems of oppression. Shabnam is most moved by writers who show how political theory can come to life, whether through offering pathways to healing, personal and collective, or through modes of resistance guided by history. She enjoys collaborating with authors who are exploring the full meaning of freedom, running the gamut from community-building in the forms of food, libations, and intentional gatherings, to world-building and the artist's role in making revolution irresistible, to organizing efforts that confront capitalist, patriarchal systems. Right now, she is primarily working on adult non-fiction, but is interested in text and visual representations of what it means to be and get free.
Foreign Rights Manager
A graduate of Colgate University, Sandy Hodgman has worked in publishing for over twenty-five years. In the course of her career, she has licensed UK and translation rights for both major US publishers and independent literary agencies. Some of the authors she has had the pleasure of representing in the foreign market most recently are Dr. Becky Kennedy, Nedra Glover Tawwab, David Ellis, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Stuart Murdoch, Rachael Herron, Hailey Magee, Robyn Silverman, PhD, and many others.
Sandy is a fixture at the London Book Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair and maintains relationships with foreign publishers to promote our titles throughout the year. She is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR) where she also sits on the International Committee.
Contracts Manager
Kasey Poserina oversees contracts for Odom Media Management. Previously, she worked at Simon & Schuster as a Contracts Director where she handled all aspects of contract drafting and negotiation for the following imprints: Free Press, Touchstone, Howard Books, and Simon & Schuster Audio. Prior to working at Simon & Schuster, Kasey was the Associate Director of Business Affairs at a major New York literary agency, where she worked with over ten literary agents reviewing and negotiating book publishing agreements, audio publishing agreements, publishing agreements with British and foreign language publishers, first serial licenses, film agreements, and author-writer collaboration agreements.
Kasey is a member of The Authors Guild and the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA).