Brenda represents many wonderful children’s book authors and artists, among them national bestsellers Rosemary Wells and Hilary Knight; National Book Award finalist Martine Leavitt; award-winning novelist Donna Jo Napoli; New York Times Best Illustrated winners Carin Berger, G. Brian Karas, and Stephen Savage; poet and novelist George Ella Lyon; and newcomers Michelle Cuevas, Annette Simon, and Naoko Stoop. She has recently taken on a handful of adult trade fiction and non-fiction writers, too, though children’s books are her specialty.

Before joining Greenburger in the summer of 2009, Brenda held a variety of positions during her twenty five-plus years in children’s publishing. She has been editorial director of  Scholastic Press; Henry Holt & Company; Disney Book Group/Hyperion; and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Brenda has edited books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, and have won the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Caldecott Honor, the Printz Honor, and the Eisner Award. She is a former member of the board of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and a past chair of the Children’s Book Council.
As an agent, Brenda continues to nurture creative careers and to work closely with clients on the editorial direction of their projects.

Brenda writes under the name Margaret McNamara, and is herself represented by Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. She prefers email submissions. More details can be found www.brendabowen.net.