Felice Laverne is the Literary Agent of Art + Deco Agency and a renowned author coach and book editor, having edited Zerlina Maxwell’s The End of White Politics among others. She is a graduate of Georgia State University and Kingston University in London. Her essays and short fiction have been published in Padmore Culture and upcoming, Kingdoms in the Wild, respectively. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area but was originally born and raised in the South. The Other Americans is her debut novel, and she is at work on her second novel, The Bermuda Triangle. See the agency site for more information on author coaching, book editing and how to submit your manuscript to her for representation consideration at www.artanddecoagency.org. You can follow her on Twitter @bookgurufelice and on Instagram @thefelicelaverne.