Sara Ortiz is a senior agent at Lyceum Agency. Before becoming an agent, she was the Interim Literary Director for the San Antonio Book Festival and the program and festival director for The Believer and Black Mountain Institute. Ortiz has spent 15 years building a career rooted in the literary arts, working and collaborating with various literary institutions and cultural organizations such as Penguin Random House, Scholastic Inc., Disney Publishing Worldwide, The Believer, Arizona State University, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Texas Library Association, Nevada Humanities, American Library Association, and McNally Jackson Books, among others. She is also the founder, curator, and host of the audio project Black Mountain Radio.