Patrice Caldwell

Patrice Caldwell is the Founder & CEO of The Caldwell Agency, a Queer and Black woman–owned literary agency she launched in 2025. Raised in Fort Worth, Texas, she spent years as a children’s book editor in NYC before transitioning to literary agenting and writing. Named to Forbes’s '30 Under 30' and a Publishers Weekly Star Watch honoree, Patrice is also the internationally bestselling author of Where Shadows Meet and editor of the anthologies A Phoenix First Must Burn and Eternally Yours.