Wine Writers’ Symposium

Katherine Cowles has been involved in publishing her entire career. Her industry connections and relationships are wide and deep. For more than a decade she was at the center of New York publishing at Simon and Schuster and Doubleday. Her experience began with contracts and moved through fiction and non-fiction acquisitions, then marketing and advertising departments eventually leading her to a position as associate publisher and vice president at Simon and Schuster where she was involved with numerous major titles and brands. As an agent at Cowles/Ryan, she is most interested in serious nonfiction – history and science in particular as well as practical nonfiction including food and wine