Marina Aris is the founder of the Aris Publishing Group, parent to the award-winning Brooklyn Writers Press and AVANTHAM for teens. A former foster youth who found her voice through books and poetry, Marina turned that early relationship with words into a career helping writers make their books the best they can be.

Marina Aris is the founder of the Aris Publishing Group, parent to the award-winning Brooklyn Writers Press and AVANTHAM for teens. A former foster youth who found her voice through books and poetry, Marina turned that early relationship with words into a career helping writers make their books the best they can be. She’s guided authors to Literary Titan, IBPA Benjamin Franklin, and American Legacy Award wins, and her own memoir, Running Into the Night, releases its second edition this August. She hosts the Book Biz Insider Podcast, where she gets candid about the business side of publishing, and serves as an IBPA Ambassador. Marina speaks on what it actually takes to write, publish, and market a book, and on turning a hard childhood into a life built around helping other people tell their stories.