Amanda Hepp Jackson is a literary agent with The Stephanie Tade Agency. Amanda is a two-time graduate of The College of William & Mary with a BachelorÕs in English and a MasterÕs of Secondary English Education. After spending over a decade as a high school English teacher (and coach, advisor, club sponsor, and project mentor), Amanda decided to engage with books in a new wayÑby getting them out into the world instead of teaching them. What Amanda loved about teaching English was discussing big ideas and the human condition with her studentsÑall through our most powerful connector: story. And now itÕs her favorite part of her job at the Agency.

She is passionate about books (obviously), coffee, the Oxford comma, plants, cats, walks with her dog, paddle boarding, learning what it means to be a good human, learning how to raise her kids to be good humans, and anything that encourages us to leave this place gentler than we found it. In her opinion, the best books teach us how to be better stewards of the earth and more compassionate companions for ourselves and each other. A great book leaves us better than we were before we read it.

In the office, AmandaÕs is a jack of all trades kind of role: she assists in agenting, reads proposals, handles some office correspondence, manages the calendar, runs social media, offers tech support, and waters (and propagates) the plants. She has been known to rearrange the furniture.