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Serene Allen
Serene Allen is our media designer. She has a wealth of knowledge in creating bold, dynamic and memorable short form content. Her skills include video editing, VFX, colour grading and sound mixing. She has a passion for storytelling & delivering diversity in content. media@litrousa.com
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Monica Cardenas
Monica Cardenas is a fiction reader at Litro. She is a PhD candidate and visiting tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she studies non-maternal and ambivalent mothers in literature, and teaches creative writing. Her work has been published in Catatonic Daughters and Litro. She is from Washington, D.C., but resides in London with her partner and rescue Shiba Inu, Dojo.
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Bobby Wilson
Bobby Wilson is Litro's non fiction editor and is a writer and teacher living in Nanjing, China. He has a podcast exclusively about Black literature, The Most Dangerous Thing in America. He will argue with you about basketball, film or hip-hop (or pretty much anything else) until a consensus is reached. It rarely is.
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Ursula Brunetti
Ursula Brunetti is a creative copywriter and an award-winning short story writer whose work has been published by Prospect, Popshot, The Willesden Herald, and the Oxford Review of Books.
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Kwadwo Gyimah
2024 FELLOW: EngineeringCivil Engineering graduate currently studying a Master's in Data Science & AI, and four years of experience as a Structural Engineering Apprentice. Expertise in merging engineering principles with data analytics and AI to optimize construction and infrastructure projects. A problem-solver with excellent communication skills, eager to contribute to innovative and technology-driven engineering solutions.
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Eric Akoto, FRSA
CEO & PresidentEric Akoto is the Founder and Editor of Litro Media and the CEO of The Sphere Initiative. With over 20 years of experience in publishing and a strong focus on content protection and technology, Eric spearheads innovative digital security solutions for creatives. His expertise bridges the legal and creative sectors, ensuring intellectual property protection in an AI-driven landscape. An author himself, Eric established the Warwick University International Young Writers competition, championing diverse voices in literature globally. Outside of his professional life, Eric is a keen runner and tennis player who advocates for fairness, free speech, and the benefits of morning meditation.
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Linda Thomas Brooks
Advisory Board MemberLinda Thomas Brooks Is President and CEO Public Relations Society of America Inc
she has spent her career at the intersection of media, consumer behavior and technology. She has developed media and marketing strategies for many well-known brands and companies, including General Motors, GEICO, The American Cancer Society, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente and Experian. Her experience serving both businesses and consumers covers a wide-range of media disciplines and capabilities, including digital and emerging media; data and analytics; media strategy, buying and planning. -
Judy Clain
Board MemberJudy Clain is Senior Vice President and Publisher of Summit Books an Imprint of Simon & Schuster. She has had the great privilege of editing some extraordinary books, all linked by one thing: a great voice. Some of the authors Judy has edited include Emma Donoghue, Maria Semple, Jake Tapper, Ayad Akhtar, Sarah Dunn, Peter Godwin, Chigozie Obioma, Lucy Tan, Elin Hilderbrand, and Edna O’Brien. Non-fiction titles Judy has edited include Delia Ephron’s memoir, Left on Tenth, I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Julie Powell’s Julie and Julia, and Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring.
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Parneshia Jones
Advisory Board member | MentorParneshia Jones is the author of Vessel, chosen as “One of 12 Books to Savor” by Oprah Magazine. Her work has been anthologized in She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems, edited by Caroline Kennedy and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, edited by Nikky Finney, and has been received a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Margaret Walker Short Story Award, and the Aquarius Press Legacy Award. She studied creative writing at Chicago State University, earned an MFA from Spalding University, and studied publishing at Yale University. A member of the Affrilachian Poets, she serves on the board of Cave Canem and Global Writers. She is editorial director of trade and engagement at Northwestern University Press and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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Lily M. Fan
Advisory Board memberLily M. Fan is a seasoned theater and documentary film producer with a background in law and public service. After practicing law and serving as counsel in the New York State Senate, Lily transitioned into producing, supporting acclaimed Broadway shows like Three Tall Women and The Iceman Cometh. Her award-winning documentary Weiner and other notable projects, such as The Fight and Couples Therapy, showcase her talent in the film industry. Since 2018, Lily has also served as a commissioner, and now the chair, of the New York State Liquor Authority. Advisor, focusing on strategic initiatives and partnerships related to Hudson Literary Retreat and Litro Media Inc.
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Mark Bradford
Advisory Board memberMark Bradford is a graduate of has an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School. In 2009, he started his own firm, Mark Bradford, P.C., which specializes in copyright, trademark, arts, music, and media law in addition to
commercial litigation, representing start-ups and entrepreneurs. He is general counsel for Electronic Arts Intermedia, has done legal work for Trisha Brown, the Merce Cunningham Trust, and Anthology Film Archives, among others, and is the executor of the estate of multi-media artist Stuart Sherman. He lives in Brooklyn.