Retha Powers

VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Retha Powers acquires fiction and nonfiction. Her acquisitions include Carolyn Ferrell's acclaimed novel Dear Miss Metropolitan; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's award-winning debut, My Monticello; José Olivarez's Promises of Gold, which was longlisted for a National Book Award for Poetry; The Talk, an award-winning graphic memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell; Reese's Book Club pick Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?; and Lessons For Survival by writer and climate activist Emily Raboteau.