Hannah Westland grew up in London and studied English Literature at Leeds University. She joined Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd in 2002, working with both Deborah Rogers and David Miller. In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious Unwin Fellowship, affording her a three month research trip to Australia where she compared rights trends in the UK and Australian publishing industries. She is building a list of authors and is interested in debut fiction and non-fiction.