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Our Mentors

Maria Heater
Maria Heater is not mentoring this year, but has mentored Adult
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Maria Heater
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Maria Heater inherited her older brother’s collection of Goosebumps and hasn’t stopped reading since. As a daughter of U.S. diplomats, she grew up in West Africa, the Middle East, and South America, but now calls Colorado home. She started reading the slush pile for agents in 2016 and is now an assistant at an agency in Denver where she lives with her husband, baby, and cats. The only thing that rivals her TBR pile is the list of places she has yet to visit.

Favorite Books

Circe by Madeline Miller
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy by Hilary Mantel
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

Years Mentored
2020