HONOREES
congratulates
on being named to publishers weekly
’s
2019 star watch list
AMBER
OLIVER
Harper and Harper Perennial
BENJAMIN
ROSENTHAL
Katherine Tegen Books
NA KIM
Art director
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York CityN
a Kim has risen through the ranks with “grit and
verve...and a style wholly her own,” FSG publisher
Mitzi Angel says. She points to the saffron-hued
background of Lucia Berlin’s covers and the red-
lined white billboard against the blue sky of Catherine Lacey’s
Certain American States. “She has a perfect palette, like a singer
who has perfect pitch,” Angel adds. Berlin’s Evening in Paradise,
and other titles with Kim’s designs including Jeffrey Eugenides’s
Fresh Complaint (which features a beautiful
illustration by Kim herself) and Mike
Roberts’s Cannibals in Love, have been
highlighted on multiple Best Covers lists.
In 2018, when Creative Review compiled its
top book covers of the year, Kim held mul-
tiple spots. She is also a freelance illus-
trator for the New York Times Book Review,
the New Yorker, and elsewhere.LORI KILKELLY
Founder and owner
LK Literary Agency, ChicagoI
n the fall of 2018, after a decade at Rodeen Literary
Management, where she assembled a list of bestselling and
award-winning authors, Kilkelly—with the blessing of
Rodeen—opened her own shop and was joined by all of her
clients in her new endeavor. Kilkelly has a knack for plucking
diamonds in the rough from the slush pile and polishing them for
success. One of her authors, Stacy McAnulty, describes Kilkelly
as “the Green Bay Packers of the children’s publishing world,”
because like the Packers, who search out
unknown players with potential rather than
shelling out millions for the already estab-
lished, Kilkelly has “an eye for talent and a
heart for nurturing writers.” McAnulty’s
debut, The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl,
was the winner of the Mathical Book Prize
and selected as a best book of the year by
Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Parents maga-
zine, among others.
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