“A life without words is
a death without heaven.”
Sera Rivers is the Creative Talent & Inclusive Storytelling Literary Agent at Speilburg Literary Agency, an AALA member, and a writer. She represents books in the children’s and adult markets, prioritizing stories by BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and other marginalized and historically excluded identities. She is represented by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency.
Sera started reading at age four and has been obsessed with books ever since—if she could live in creative worlds, she would. Some of her all-time favorite childhood books are The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace, Behind the Attic Wall by Silvia Cassedy; and Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Sera received her master of fine arts degree in Writing for Children, with a concentration in young adult novels, from Simmons University. Her young adult memoir THE WICKED ONES won the 2016 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award. She worked in educational publishing for seven years, writing and editing a variety of genres for children and adults. Now, as an agent, Sera provides editorial feedback to help clients get their manuscripts submission ready.
Sera lives with her partner and their island rescue pups Jett and Marty. When she’s not reading or writing, she can be found running and hiking all over New England. To find out more about Sera and what she’s looking for, check out her wish list. Her social handles are @writeloudly. You can also follow Jett’s adventures on Instagram: @jettonwheels.