Retha Powers

VICE PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Retha Powers acquires fiction and nonfiction. Her acquisitions include the acclaimed novel Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s award-winning debut, My Monticello; Misfits by Michaela Coel; How We Can Win, by author and activist Kimberly Jones; The Talk a graphic memoir by Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Darrin Bell; and Lessons For Survival by writer and climate activist Emily Raboteau. Previously she was Assistant Director of the Publishing Certificate Program at the City College of New York, Director of the Langston Hughes Festival, and Executive Editor of Quality Paperback Book Club.