Elana Roth Parker is a Detroit-based creative type of the word variety.
Elana has a few college degrees that explain where she came from and where she is now: one in English literature from Barnard College and one in Bible from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
The magic happened when she lucked into her dream internship at Nickelodeon Magazine—a career in children's content was born. Book publishing followed, and over the next two decades Elana went from editor to agent, with some stops in marketing and content strategy along the way. A literary agent for 15 years, she currently represents children's book authors at Laura Dail Literary Agency.
After 17 years in New York City, Elana and her creative director husband relocated to her native Michigan in 2016, where she now drives around their two sons in a minivan. She is often found quilting with abandon in the basement, or rewatching a Star Trek series (not Enterprise).
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