Laura Yorke is a veteran book editor who has published numerous bestselling authors, including Maria Shriver, Mary Tyler Moore, Merilou Henner, Sylvia Earle, Barry Paris, Carol Felsenthal, Tracy Thompson, and Michael Weiner-Davis. Laura began her career at Simon & Schuster, where she worked as an editor at three different imprints before moving to Putnam. From there she co-founded the Golden Books Adult trade division, focusing primarily on psychology and parenting titles, then moved on to become the editor-at-large of Regan Books/HarperCollins. She joined the Carol Mann Agency three years ago and her clients include bestselling authors Henry S. Lodge M.D. and Chris Crowley, former anchor Willow Bay, eminent Harvard psychologist George Vaillant, noted researcher and chief of psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Eric Hollander, former Seventeen Editor-in-Chief Sabrina Weil, and prize-winning journalists Mary A. Fischer and Alexis Jetter. Laura also serves as a contributing editor to Reader's Digest and co-authored WHY MOTOR SKILLS MATTER (McGraw-Hill), a book for parents on the relationship between sensory integration and motor development. A native New Yorker, Laura graduated manga cum laude from Duke University.

Nicole Bergstrom worked at Rosenstone/Wender and the Gersh Agency prior to the Carol Mann Agency. She is a graduate of New York University.

Urvashi Chakravarty worked as an intern at the agency before moving to her current position as foreign rights manager. She graduated summa cum laude from Columbia in 2003, where she served on the editorial board of the literary review and the journal of literary criticism. She evidently enjoys reading and is trying to learn how to cook.