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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: Betsy Lerner
Description: Betsy Lerner is a longtime literary agent and the author of the debut novel Shred Sisters, available from Grove Press. Lerner's other books include The Bridge Ladies, The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers, and Food and Loathing. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry where she was selected as one of PEN’s Emerging Writers. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors. After working as an editor for 15 years, she became an agent and is currently a partner with Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency.<...