opaque industry with its difficult-to-navigate network of publishing houses, editors, and agents. It has been particularly opaque for BIPOC people who have been historically under-represented in an industry that has been dominated by white, middle-class, and upper-middle-class people. In recent years the industry has made strides toward broadening its workforce. The 2023 Lee & Low Books survey of industry diversity shows that 72.5 percent of publishing industry professionals identify as white, down from 76 percent in 2019. Among literary agents 74 percent identified as white, down from 80 percent in 2019. When the Literary Agents
