David Gernert
David spent the first fourteen years of his publishing career at Doubleday, the last six as Editor-In-Chief. He left Doubleday in 1996 to start The Gernert Company, believing his experience as a publisher would give him some unique insight into the representation of authors. He lives in Pound Ridge with his wife and four children.

Sarah Burnes
Sarah began her career on the editorial side of publishing, first at Houghton Mifflin, then in the Knopf Group, and last at Little, Brown. She became an agent in 2001, joining The Gernert Company in 2005. As an editor, she acquired and edited literary fiction and non-fiction, and as an agent has added children's fiction to her list. She is always on the lookout for sharp, original voices. Sarah sits on the board of non-profit progressive publisher the New Press and lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn.

Stephanie Cabot
Stephanie spent nine years at the William Morris Agency in London the last five as Managing Director for five years, where she represented many international bestselling and prize-winning authors. She moved back to the States in 2005, joined the Gernert Company, and is now selectively adding American writers to her list. In addition to working with her own clients, she also draws on her international publishing experience as the agency’s Foreign Rights Director. She spends her weekends on a family dairy farm with her husband and four children.

Courtney Hammer
Courtney began her career at Maria B. Campbell Associates, scouting US books for publication in foreign markets and for adaptation to film, with a focus on books for young readers. She joined the agency in 2006 as a Foreign Rights Associate.

Chris Parris-Lamb
Chris joined The Gernert Company in 2005. He was born in Alabama and grew up in North Carolina, where he attended UNC-Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship. Things he likes include, but are not limited to, college basketball, fly-fishing, most forms of musical expression, Herodotus and Thucydides, and novels that engage the reader through both their prose and their story. He misses HBO’s The Wire.

Will Roberts
Will joined the team in 2008 after working at Vintage Books and, before that, at a newspaper in Jackson, WY. He hosted a radio show at his alma mater, Middlebury College, that featured indie rock and, shamelessly, his own band, Lobster Duey.

Erika Storella
Erika joined the agency in 2005 after completing a MA in social science at the University of Chicago. Her graduate work sparked an interest in how new ideas are brought to the public and led her to pursue a career in publishing. Originally from Boston, she now resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where her personal library includes literary fiction and memoir, as well as works on history, contemporary art and theory, sociology, and crafts.