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Ismita Hussain

Agent

Ismita Hussain is an agent with Great Dog Literary, representing adult fiction and non-fiction, and YA. She specializes in literary fiction, health/disability-related works, and books set in the South. She also works on short story collections. She is a founding member of Disability in Publishing. Some of her favorite authors are Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Oscar Wilde, and Tom Perrotta.

Health Humor Literary Short Story

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Jenissa Graham

Agent

Jenissa Graham is an Associate Agent and Subrights Manager at BookEnds Literary Agency. She represents MG and YA in contemporary, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery/suspense, and thrillers as well as Adult in mystery/suspense and thrillers. As a first-generation Jamaican and advocate for marginalized voices, Jenissa is dedicated to increasing the BIPOC space in Publishing.

Commercial Fantasy Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Thriller

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Alyssa Jennette

Agent

Alyssa Jennette joined Stonesong Literary in June 2015 after interning at Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Illustration. As a result, she has unique insight and expertise when it comes to design-heavy or illustrated works. Alyssa is a very editorial agent; she finds a lot of joy in shaping stories alongside the author and delights in building long-term partnerships.

Commercial Crime Family Saga Graphic Novel Horror Humor Humor Illustrated LGBTQ Literary Mystery Pop Culture Thriller True Crime

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Stephanie Winter

Agent

Stephanie Winter is a multi-passionate booklover, specializing in visual works across genres and age categories, including graphic novels and nonfiction. From horror and thrillers to queer romance, her tastes in prose and illustration are varied and expansive. Stephanie holds a BA in English from the University of Toronto, a MA in English: Issues in Modern Culture from University College London, UK, and is a member of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival Board of Directors. Stephanie joined the KOMM team in early 2024 and brings with her 10+ years of combined academic, publishing, and bookselling experience.

Commercial Cookbooks Crafts/DIY Fiction Graphic Novel Health Horror Humor Illustrated Journalism LGBTQ LGBTQ Literary Mystery Non-Fiction Pop Culture Rom-Com Romance Suspense Thriller Travel Women's Fiction

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Stefanie Molina

Agent

Stefanie Molina is an agent at Ladderbird Literary Agency. She is primarily looking for BIPOC stories across all age groups, especially contemporary and urban fantasy, romcom, mysteries, and thrillers. She loves stories that incorporate food, animals/the outdoors, and intergenerational relationships. Outside of agenting, she enjoys hiking, swimming, baking, and playing the piano. Her favorite place in the world is Yosemite National Park! You can find her on Twitter @fiction_tech.

Fiction Mystery Rom-Com

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Stacey Graham

Agent

Stacey Graham, agent at 3 Seas Literary, has worked both sides of the literary door as a humor writer with the wickedly funny Zombie Tarot, author of three books, screenwriter, ghostwriter, and short story writer. She loves working with writers at all stages of their careers and uses her experience in authorship to help navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of publishing for her clients. She is currently looking to expand her list with snappy Rom-Coms, hilarious/spooky middle grade, and weird nonfiction.

Humor Rom-Com

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Savannah Brooks

Agent

Savannah Brooks, KT Literary. She earned her MFA, focused in creative nonfiction, from Hamline University and her BS in marketing management from Virginia Tech. She focuses most heavily on kid lit—from picture books to YA, both fiction and nonfiction—and also represents adult thrillers, romcoms, and contemporary/commercial fiction. She’s especially interested in stories that teach her something new, add to a larger sociopolitical conversation, and highlight underrepresented identities.

Commercial Fiction Mystery Non-Fiction Politics Rom-Com Thriller

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Sarah LaPolla

Editor

Sarah LaPolla has over a decade of experience in the publishing industry. Starting at Curtis Brown, Ltd. in 2008, and later as an agent at Bradford Literary Agency, Sarah has primarily represented Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction in a variety of genres featuring complex, diverse characters who often challenge the status quo and address timely issues. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) from The New School and a BA in Creative Writing from Ithaca
College.

Commercial Fantasy Fiction Horror Literary Memoir Mystery Rom-Com Science Fiction Speculative Women's Fiction

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Samantha Wekstein

Agent

Agency: Thompson Literary
Genres: Fiction: Children's, Fantasy, Historical, Humor, Middle Grade, New Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Young Adult. Non-Fiction: Humor, Pop Culture. She loves creative and epic fantasies in the vein of Sarah J. Maas or Leigh Bardugo. But she is also drawn to contemporary YA with multi-dimensional female characters like those of Rainbow Rowell, Julie Murphy and Melina Marchetta. She also loves middle grade with themes of friendship, adventure and tragedy.

Fantasy Fiction Historical Romance Science Fiction Women's Fiction

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Renée Fountain

Agent

Renee C. Fountain, President of Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Lit Mgmt. With eight years in Big 5 publishing, writing reviews for Kirkus and NY Journal of Books, five years as a story analyst for a television network. Interested in developmental editing and critiquing: All types of non-fiction. Most fiction, especially: YA, adult thrillers, rom-com, mystery, horror, fantasy (urban, dark, magical realism). Not interested in PB, MG, political, religious, westerns, hard sci-fi, erotica, poetry.

Crime Fiction Non-Fiction Rom-Com Suspense Thriller

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Rebecca Raskin

Editor

Rebecca Raskin is a former assistant editor who acquired nonfiction and fiction on Harper Wave, Harper Business and Harper Perennial lists at HarperCollins. She has previously worked at Kensington Publishing and Folio Literary Agency. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature.

Fiction Memoir Mystery Non-Fiction Romance

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Rachel Diebel

Editor

Rachel Diebel is an editor at Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, acquiring middle grade, young adult, and graphic novels. Throughout her career, she has worked on multiple New York Times bestsellers, as well as celebrity projects including books by Lili Reinhart, Jimmy Fallon, and the forthcoming Natalie Portman's Fables. She is always looking for projects from marginalized voices and has a particular soft spot for stories of found families and YA and MG graphic novels with colorful, commercial art styles.

Fiction Graphic Novel

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Molly Cusick

Agent,Editor

Molly Cusick is a former editor & agent, and works on Young Adult, Middle Grade, and picture book projects, as well as select adult fiction and nonfiction. Molly has represented and edited authors including Julie Murphy (#1 New York Times bestselling author of DUMPLIN’), Pat Zietlow Miller (New York Times bestselling picture book author of BE KIND), Julie Berry (Newbery Honor Award-winning and bestselling MG and YA author), and Nina Laurin (USA Today bestselling suspense author). She works with all genres.

Fiction Humor Non-Fiction

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Melissa Edwards

Agent

Agent at Stonesong Literary. I represent adult commercial fiction, predominantly thrillers and women’s fiction. I am looking for fresh voices in both genres– unusual takes on the tropes that we all love. Genres: Fiction: Commercial, Thriller, Women’s Fiction,
Non-Fiction: Humor, Pop Culture.

Fiction Humor Pop Culture Thriller Women's Fiction

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Linda Camacho

Agent

Agent at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency. Linda is open to MG and YA fiction, all genres; select graphic novels; select picture book writer-illustrators; adult fiction (namely, upmarket/book club fiction, women's fiction/romance, and literary horror). Children's category – All fiction genres. Adult category – General fiction, bookclub fiction, romance, women's fiction, science fiction, fantasy, speculative, horror.

Crime Fantasy Fiction Horror Literary Mystery Rom-Com Romance Science Fiction Speculative Suspense Thriller Women's Fiction

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Larissa Melo Pienkowski

Agent

Larissa Melo Pienkowski is a literary agent at Jill Grinberg Literary Management, the assistant publisher of Dottir Press, and a freelance editor. As a Latinx, mixed-race bookworm, she's passionate about #OwnVoices stories, uplifting marginalized voices, and reading across genres, especially YA, MG, literary fiction, and narrative nonfiction. She earned her BSW at Simmons College and her MA in Publishing and Writing at Emerson College, and makes pottery in her free time (when she’s not reading, that is).

Fiction Literary Mystery

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Kiana Nguyen

Agent

iana is an agent at Donald Maass Literary and focuses primarily on YA Contemporary, but she'd love to work with low/high Fantasy and Sci-fi, and is HUNGRY for queer and POC voices, especially if the narrative is as much driven by the main character(s) as by a high-concept plot. She's also looking for an achingly bittersweet queer love story with thriller or genre spin, and adult thrillers, romance, and upmarket genre fiction.

Commercial LGBTQ Mystery Romance Thriller

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Katharine Sands

Agent

Katharine Sands is a literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Agency in New York City. She is the agent provocateur of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch A Literary Agent’s Eye. She has been a guest speaker on writing and publishing for Poets and Writers, The American Society of Journalists and Authors, UCLA, New York University, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Katharine likes books that have a clear benefit for readers’ lives in categories of food, travel, lifestyle, home arts, beauty, wisdom, relationships, parenting, and fresh looks, which might be at issues, life challenges or popular culture. When reading fiction she wants to be compelled and propelled by urgent storytelling, and hooked by characters. For memoir, femoir, and himoir, she likes to be transported to a world rarely or newly observed.

Biography Cookbooks Fiction Humor Journalism Memoir Non-Fiction Pop Culture Psychology Travel

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Kaitlyn Sanchez

Agent

Agent at Bradford Literary. The stories I like to acquire range from emotional to funny. I also look for diversity all in forms, including, but not limited to, BIPOC, neurodiversity, and LGBTQ+. For picture books, I enjoy all formats from character-driven to concept. I connect with lyrical writing (rhyme and non-rhyme) just as much as funny. I also enjoy nonfiction STEAM books and picture book biographies. For novels, historical fiction, mysteries, magical realism, humorous, and friendships stories.

Commercial Fiction Historical Humor LGBTQ Mystery

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Marilyn R. Atlas

Producer

Marilyn R. Atlas is a literary manager and award-winning producer. Among her credits as film producer are “Real Women Have Curves” for HBO, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance; “A Certain Desire,” starring Sam Waterston; and “Echoes,” which won the Gold Award at the Texas International Film Festival.

Fiction Non-Fiction

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