Jevon Bolden is a literary agent with Embolden Literary. Book editor, writer, and literary agent, Jevon Bolden is the author of seven books, including her most popular title, Pray Hear Write: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Breakthrough in Your Writing, published by her team at Embolden Media Group. Jevon is passionate about supporting efforts to increase diversity in Christian publishing. Putting that passion to action, Jevon recently founded a group called Christian Publishing Professionals of Color that seeks to provide support, career opportunities, and community for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) in Christian publishing. She also serves as a consultant to the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) and serves on their committee for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in Christian publishing.

Throughout her time as an in-house editor and now as an editorial consultant and collaborative writer, Jevon has seen the books she’s written and edited for others go on to appear on national best-sellers’ lists and sell millions of copies around the world impacting lives for the better. Starting her seventeen-year career in traditional book publishing as a copyeditor, she moved quickly into senior acquisitions and senior editor roles with publishers for both adult and children’s titles.

Conference speaker, workshop facilitator, writing coach, and mentor, Jevon shares the best of what she knows with passionate, creative, and influential people who desire to publish great books that make a difference. After attending two years at Oakwood University, a Christian HBCU (historically black college and university), Jevon went on to obtain her bachelor’s degree in English, with a minor in sociology, from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She now lives in sunny Central Florida with her family and Cocker Spaniel, Langston Hughes.