Jennifer Pooley is an Editor with HarperCollins imprint William Morrow where she began her career in 1998. She has most recently published Sarah Hall's Daughters of the North, Willy's Vlautin's Northline, and Jennifer Sey's Chalked Up. Upcoming titles from her list include Michael Zadoorian's The Leisure Seeker (a novel she acquired with simultaneous film rights to Colgate alumni Jeff Sharp '89 whose company Sharp Independent also holds the film option on Northline) as well as Daniel James Brown's Following Sarah: The Harrowing Wedding Journey of Sarah Graves Fosdick. She also publishes more whimsical work including memoir that delivers an unforgettable arm chair experience such as Marjorie Hart's national bestseller Summer at Tiffany, which she discovered at the San Diego State University Writers' Conference in January 2006 and acquired from the 83-year-old debut author on its first twenty pages alone. She will speak about the role of the editor in manuscript development and take personal appointments throughout the week with any conference attendees who would like to discuss either their pitch letters to potential agents or the first ten pages of any current work of fiction or nonfiction (please submit your pitch letter or manuscript pages by June 9, 2008 through the conference director). Jennifer is a 1997 graduate of Colgate University and still uses what she learned in conference founder Frederick Busch's "Living Writers" course (fall 1996) every day.