Erin C. Niumata

Literary agent and Senior Vice President at Folio Literary Management since 2006. Former editorial director at Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, and Avalon Books (now Amazon Publishing)

Erin Niumata has been in publishing for several decades. She has been a Senior Vice President at Folio Literary Management since 2006. She also worked in the editorial departments of Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins and was editorial director of Avalon Books (now a division of Amazon Publishing). She has represented NY Times bestselling women’s fiction author Carolyn Brown; Discovery Channel’s Fast N Loud, and Cash Cab; TLC’s The Cake Boss, Diesel Brothers, and Extreme Couponing; NASA’s Above and Beyond; inspirational speaker Josh Shipp; graffiti artist/inspiration speaker Erik Walh; skin care expert and co-founder of SoKo Glam, Charlotte Cho; Hello Fears internet sensation Michelle Poler; Forever Twenty Something founder Sam Matt; humorist and NY Times bestseller Jen Lancaster; humorist and NY Times bestselling author Jen Mann; activist Tyler Merritt; humorist Anna Lind Thomas, The Smithsonian Institute; mystery writer Leslie Karst, confidence expert Juan Bendaña, lecturer and TEDx producer Shermin Kruse, bestselling author and motivational speaker Selena Rezvani, Women’s Fiction authors Lex Erath and Julie Anne Lindsey; and many more. Erin has a Master Degree in Creative Writing and is completing her doctorate with a focus on the publishing industry. She also guest lectures on creative writing and the publishing industry both in the UK and USA.