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Vanessa Aguirre

Editor

Vanessa Aguirre is an Assistant Editor at St. Martin's Press/Wednesday Books, where she acquires both young adult and adult fiction. She has a soft spot for fantasy, horror, and science fiction, but also loves a good romance and mystery/thriller, as well as select upmarket fiction with a darker edge. She has worked with several bestselling and award-winning authors, including Casey McQuiston, Rainbow Rowell, Julian Winters, and Hayley Kiyoko. You can find her across socials at @vnssaguirre.

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Chelsea Hensley

Agent

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Associate literary agent at KT Literary representing children’s and adult fiction. Before becoming an agent I was a perpetual publishing intern with experience in various areas of the industry including indie presses and lit magazines. I'm actively building my client list with a focus on authors of bold fiction across multiple genres in children’s and adult categories. I'm based in St. Louis where I spend my free time playing D&D, watching reruns of The Golden Girls, and wrangling two chaotic dogs. Bold fiction in picture book, middle grade, YA, and adult categories, specifically in the genres of fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, suspense/thriller, and romance.

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Alice Speilburg

Agent

Alice Speilburg is the founding agent of Speilburg Literary and has worked in publishing for more than a decade. She represents commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction and has worked with bestselling and award-winning authors, literary and professional societies, and branded content. Alice is a member of the Association of American Literary Agents, as well as several writing organizations, and she previously worked at John Wiley & Sons, and Howard Morhaim Literary Agency.

In nonfiction, Alice is looking for authors with established platforms, especially journalists and academics, who are writing Cultural Narratives, Gender Issues, Microhistory, Music, Nature Narratives, and Pop Science. In fiction, Alice is looking for character-driven novels for the adult market that fall under the following genres: Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

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Natalie Edwards

Agent

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Agent at Trellis Literary. Natalie is looking for accessible voices with a literary sensibility. She enjoys narratives of queerness and diaspora, hidden histories, complex friendship stories, workplace satires, explorations of subcultures, grounded speculative novels, and narratives where faith and queerness intersect.

In the nonfiction space, she is looking for issue-driven hybrid memoirs that combine personal stories with reportage, journalistic narrative nonfiction, and cultural histories.

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Jonathan Baker

Author

As an editor, writer, and publishing consultant, Jonathan Baker has worked with Richard Powers, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Palliser, John Lahr, and Jonathan Eig, among many other authors, and his projects have been nominated for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. He lives in Portland, Maine.

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Melissa Vogan (Warten)

Editor

Melissa Warten is an editor at Epic for Kids, the leading digital reading platform for children, where she works on IP comics development projects for readers ages 12 and under, including the smash hit series Cat Ninja. Prior to Epic, she spent more than five years on the editorial team at Farrar Straus Giroux Books working on picture books, middle grade, young adult, and select nonfiction and graphic novel projects. Her works include NYT Bestsellers and Award-Winning tiles.

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Marilyn R. Atlas, Talent Manager & Award-Winning Producer

Producer

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Marilyn R. Atlas is a talent and literary manager and award-winning producer. Her clients have appeared in shows such as Star Trek, Fringe, Pretty Little Liars, How to Get Away with Murder, 90210, Revenge, Hart of Dixie, NCIS:LA, True Blood, Dexter, Chuck, Castle, and Criminal Minds. She was film producer on Real Women Have Curves for HBO, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival; A Certain Desire, starring Sam Waterston; and Echoes, which won the Gold Award at the Texas International Film Festival.

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Sara Schonfeld

Editor

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Sara Schonfeld is an editor at HarperCollins Children's, working on picture books, middle grade, and teen. As an author and editor, she approaches each project with curiosity and aims to help authors uncover the heart of their story and feel inspired.

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Jessica Felleman

Agent

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Jessica Felleman is an Agent with the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency with an MFA in writing from CalArts. Adult Literary and upmarket commercial fiction, women's fiction, RomComs that play with tropes, speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, fiction that balances on the edge of genre, YA science fiction and fantasy with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+ characters and underrepresented POVs, pop culture, memoirs, prescriptive self-help from experts, narrative nonfiction on psychology, science, and history.

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Monica Rodriguez

Agent

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Monica Rodriguez is the Director of Brand Management at Context Literary Agency. Her love for books can be traced back to elementary school, where the best days were spent attending book fairs and author readings. Monica is also a Junior Agent with a mission to help uplift underrepresented voices in publishing, specifically within the Latinx community. In children’s literature, she is actively looking for PB, MG, YA & Graphic Novels. She is also open to adult and non-fiction submissions.

Genres:
Action/Adventure, Contemporary, Commercial, Family Saga, Historical, Horror, Humor, LGBTQ, Literary, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Upmarket, Journalism, Pop Culture, Psychology, Science, Travel

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Krista Vitola

Editor

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Currently, I’m acquiring literary middle-grade novels with commercial appeal. VOICE. Voice, voice, voice. This is what I immediately look for in a narrative. I will fall head-over-heels for any story with a great voice. Draw me in! Commercial narratives, preferably ones with a dark and twisted plot, where someone may or may not be dead. Emotionally-layered complex stories that are multicultural and feature diverse characters. I love a cast of characters that features distinctly unique individuals and sheds light on the unique features that make us all so imperfectly human.

Commercial General Horror Humor Literary
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Anne Elliott

Author

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Anne Elliott is the author of The Artstars: Stories (Indiana University Press) and The Beginning of the End of the Beginning (Ploughshares Solos). Her short fiction can be found in Story, A Public Space, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Hobart, Bellevue Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and elsewhere. Elliott is a veteran of the New York spoken word circuit, with stage credits including The Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, PS122, and Woodstock ’94. Her fiction has been awarded support from The Story Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, The Normal School, Table 4 Writer’s Foundation, and The Bridport Prize. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College, and lives in Portland, Maine. Learn more at http://www.anneelliottstories.com.

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Logan Harper

Agent

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Prior to joining JRA in 2021, Logan was an Associate Agent at a mid-sized literary agency in Manhattan. She’s seeking a wide range of character-driven fiction and is particularly drawn to book club fiction, contemporary romance and romantic comedies, psychological thrillers, domestic suspense, horror, mystery/crime, upmarket and literary fiction. She is always eager to read and champion underrepresented voices and perspectives. A native Washingtonian, Logan is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle and the Columbia Publishing Course in Oxford.

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Kayla Cichello

Agent

Kayla Cichello is an agent at Upstart Crow Literary open to picture books through young adult and select adult manuscripts. A former Conference Coordinator for the Summer and Winter Conferences for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, she most recently logged several years as assistant to Senior Agent Jennifer Rofé at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. She is searching for those voices that make her laugh and keep the page turning. Some of her clients include author Ana Ot, author of the upcoming THE HEART NEVER FORGETS (Atheneum/S&S, 2024) and a follow up title in 2025 and author/illustrator Kirbi Fagan's upcoming debut picture book with Millbrook/Lerner.

Mystery Rom-Com Romance Speculative Suspense Women's Fiction
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Lane Clarke

Agent

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Agent at Arthouse Literary. Middle Grade adventure with big emotions, inquisitive MG with big questions, horror stories with a historical lens, contemporary books that push against the status quo, fantasy with underrepresented mythology, YA with an emotional punch. Historical fiction like Stacey Lee and Ruta Sepetys, speculative contemporary. In Adult, she is looking for romance with lots of tension! She is also looking for literary fiction, generational sagas and societal commentary.

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Dani Segelbaum

Agent

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Dani Segelbaum is a literary agent at the Carol Mann Agency. She is interested in non-fiction titles with an emphasis on politics, women’s issues, popular culture, and current events. Dani also loves memoir, narrative non-fiction, lifestyle, and cookbooks. In fiction, she is looking for literary and upmarket adult fiction including debut, historical, rom-coms, and women’s fiction. A graduate of Boston University, Dani started her career as an assistant editor at HarperCollins Publishers.

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Erica Bauman

Agent

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Erica Bauman is a literary agent at Aevitas Creative Management and represents a wide variety of authors across middle grade, young adult, and upmarket adult fiction. She focuses on speculative novels, graphic novels for all ages, fearless storytellers that tackle big ideas + contemporary issues, + working with and supporting marginalized authors and stories. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and has worked in the publishing industry since 2012. Prior to Aevitas, she worked at Spectrum Literary.

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Sara Sargent

Editor

Sara Sargent is a Senior Executive Editor at Random House Books for Young Readers. Having acquired and edited numerous bestsellers, Sara has a background in YA, middle grade, and picture books—these days, she focuses on picture books, which she believes are a form of true artistry.

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Taj McCoy

Agent

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Taj aims to widen the entryway for marginalized authors into the publishing industry and to normalize Black joy, fat joy, celebrations of culture, and love without limitations. She represents Adult Fiction (contemporary, romance, romcoms, women's fiction, mystery/thriller), Adult Non-Fiction (memoirs, narratives, cookbooks, satire, empowerment), Children's Fiction (MG and YA contemporary, mystery, romance, thriller, fantasy), Children's Non-Fiction (historical narratives, picture books).

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Anjanette Barr

Agent

Anjanette represents books across all age categories in both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her favorite themes include the natural world, found family, faith and myth, science, slow burn romantic relationships, and exploration of culture. Genres she is especially drawn to include anything under the Speculative/SFF umbrella, romance, book club fiction, popular science, and all things Middle Grade. She does not represent erotica or true crime.

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Emily Daluga

Editor

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Emily Daluga (she/her) is an Associate Editor at Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books. Before finding her place at Abrams in 2017, she worked as a bookseller at the Strand, a librarian in Illinois and Ohio, and a ticket taker at the AMC in Times Square. Emily mostly focuses on middle-grade and YA novels, but has also worked on chapter books and early readers and is happy to critique them.

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John Cusick

Agent

Literary agent at Folio Literary Management. I represent a diverse list of iconoclastic voices in young adult, middle-grade, picture books, and everything in between. I’m seeking unique voices in fiction for young people, stories that move readers, moments that make me look up and say “Wow, yes. I’ve felt that.” Send me the books kids will sneak/steal/borrow in secret. Those personal, dangerous, life-saving stories. Genres: Children's, Middle Grade, Picture Books, YA, author-illustrators. No adult works.

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Ismita Hussain

Agent

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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.

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Kelly Van Sant

Agent

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Kelly Van Sant (KT Literary). Categories/Genres: Children's, Young Adult, Middle Grade, fantasy, science-fiction, speculative, mystery, contemporary, adventure. Kelly has a decade of experience in the publishing industry. She cut her teeth in New York working at esteemed literary agencies such as Writers House and Harold Ober Associates. She has worked as a freelance editor and is a teaching artist at the Loft Literary Center and runs the Pub(lishing) Crawl podcast.

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Jenissa Graham

Agent

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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.

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Alyssa Jennette

Agent

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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.

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Stephanie Winter

Agent

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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.

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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

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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.

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Sarah LaPolla

Editor

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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.

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Saba Sulaiman

Agent

Saba Sulaiman is an agent at Talcott Notch Literary Services, a boutique agency located in Milford, CT. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the University of Chicago, where she studied modern Persian literature. She is looking primarily to build her Middle Grade and Young Adult lists, especially contemporary realistic. She's also open to category romance (except paranormal), literary, upmarket, and commercial fiction, character-driven psychological thrillers, cozy mysteries, and memoir.

Fiction Mystery Thriller
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Renée Fountain

Agent

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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.

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Rebecca Raskin

Editor

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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.

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Rachel Diebel

Editor

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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.

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Quressa Robinson

Agent

Quressa Robinson joined Folio Literary Management in 2022 after working at previous agencies, including the Nelson Literary Agency, and as an editor for five years. She is originally from San Francisco, but has been living in New York City for over a decade. As a New York based agent, she is eager to build her MG, YA, and Adult lists. When not curled on her couch reading, she plays video games, enjoys too much, TV–-mostly Sailor Moon and Avatar: The Last Airbender (Fire Nation)--eats delicious things, drinks champagne, hangs out with her very clever partner, and adds another “dramatic” color to her lipstick collection. Quressa is also a member of the 2017-2019 WNDB Walter Grant Committee and holds an MFA in Creative Writing: Fiction from Columbia University. In 2020, she was named a Publisher's Weekly Star Watch finalist. In 2021 she was named an influential gatekeeper in Book and Film Globe’s inaugural Publishing Power 30 list alongside phenoms like Reece Witherspoon, Celeste Ng, and Lisa Lucas.

LGBTQ Science Fiction
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Monica Odom

Agent

Founder and Agent at Odom Media Management. Monica is reviewing nonfiction and literary fiction submissions, as well as graphic novels, throughout the children’s and adult age categories.

FICTION (LITERARY ONLY):
Children's, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ+, Multicultural, Short Stories, Picture Books by Illustrator

NONFICTION:
Art, Black Feminism, Business, Comics, Journalism, Cookbooks, Cultural/Social Issues, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Environmental Justice, Film/TV, Food, Gardening, Gift Books, Graphic Memoir, History, Home Decorating & Design, How To, Humor, Journalism, Juvenile, LGBTQ+, Lifestyle, Multicultural, Narrative, Nature & Ecology, Parenting, Personal Growth & Wellness, Photography, Picture Books by Illustrator, Pop Culture, Science and Technology, Self-Help/Self-Reflection, Social Justice & Activism, Social Studies, Spirituality, Travel, Women’s Issues

Cookbooks Crafts/DIY Fiction Graphic Novel History Humor Humor Illustrated Journalism LGBTQ LGBTQ Literary Memoir Non-Fiction Politics Pop Culture Psychology Science Short Story Travel Women's Fiction
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Molly Cusick

Agent,Editor

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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

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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.

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Linda Camacho

Agent

Available for Written Critiques

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.

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Larissa Melo Pienkowski

Agent

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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).

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Kiana Nguyen

Agent

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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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Kayla Lightner

Agent

Kayla Lightner is an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary. An adventurous reader, Kayla loves stories—across commercial fiction, literary fiction, and nonfiction—that masterfully straddle the line between story-telling and teaching her something new. In terms of literary tastes, she works with speculative fiction (SFF, horror, and magical realism), literary and upmarket family sagas, short story collections, humorous essay collections, and memoir.

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Katharine Sands

Agent

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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.

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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.

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Julie Falatko

Author

Julie Falatko writes books for children. She is the author of the picture books Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) and Snappsy the Alligator and His Best Friend Forever (Probably), No Boring Stories!, The Great Indoors, the Two Dogs in a Trench Coat chapter book series, Rick the Rock of Room 214, and Chester Barkingham Saves the Country. Julie lives with her family in Maine, where she maintains the Little Free Library in front of their house.

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Marilyn R. Atlas

Producer

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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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Jessica Sinsheimer

Agent

Jessica Sinsheimer has been reading and campaigning for her favorite queries since 2004. Now an agent at Context Literary Agency, she is always on the lookout for new writers, and--whatever the age group--she tends to love contrast: highbrow sentences and lowbrow content, beautiful settings and ugly motives–the books that are beautiful and scary, heartbreaking and hilarious. She loves secrets, scheming, revenge, plotting–and stories that have to be written forward and backward to make sense (SHE LOVES discovering a very cleverly planted clue that makes sense in retrospect). She'd love more of what she thinks of as "Rom Com 2.0" works--powerful, nerdy women with humor and heart. More underrepresented characters, please–especially those with power, agency, and happy endings. You can find her #MSWL here."

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Jennifer Wills

Agent

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Agent at the Seymour Agency. Jennifer is interested in a wide range of picture books and cookbooks, with a soft spot for author/illustrators of sweet and wacky picture books, and cookbooks with mouth-watering recipes of the health-conscious, budget-friendly, or celebrity chef variety. For fiction, she’s interested in middle grade, YA with a sci-fi/fantasy, horror/suspense, or contemporary bent, and upmarket women’s fiction with a sense of humor. On the non-fiction side, narrative non-fiction and memoir.

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Hannah Strouth

Agent

Available for Written Critiques

While earning her B.A. in English and Marketing from the College of William & Mary, Hannah completed an internship at a boutique literary agency in Virginia, where she fell in love with this side of publishing. After graduating from the Columbia Publishing Course, she joined JRA and is now at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. In fiction, she’s looking for literary, upmarket, historical, and select rom-coms. She will always have a soft spot for speculative and magical realism.

Fiction Historical Humor Literary Rom-Com Romance Speculative
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Fiona Kenshole

Agent

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Fiona represents children’s and YA books, from picture books to older teenage, split about 70/30 fiction/nonfiction. Likes: Unreliable narrators, MG stories with real children in an imaginary world, and feelgood YA. Enjoy elements of cycling, suspense, mysteries, plots that go awry, humor. No rhyming picture books, poetry, or faith-based works.

Fiction Graphic Novel Mystery Non-Fiction Thriller
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Erica Finkel

Editor

Erica Finkel, Abrams Books, hails from Maryland and studied English Literature at Tufts University in Boston. After graduation, she taught English in a teeny town in France, then returned to Boston to earn an MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College. She moved to New York to take a job at Abrams Books in 2010 and has been there ever since.

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Eric Smith

Agent

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Eric Smith is a literary agent at P.S. Literary, with a love for young adult books, sci-fi, fantasy, and non-fiction. He began his publishing career at Quirk Books in Philadelphia, working social media and marketing on numerous books he absolutely adored. Eric completed his BA in English at Kean University, and his MA in English at Arcadia University.

Commercial Fantasy Fiction Humor Literary Pop Culture Science Fiction
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Emmy Nordstrom Higdon

Agent

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emmy (they/them) represents across age categories + genres, specializing in identity-driven works. They work in both fiction and non-fiction, from PB to adult, including commercial, upmarket, book club & literary. They specialize in contemporary books grounded in reality, with and without speculative elements. Mystery, thriller, suspense, romance, romcom, women's fiction, LGBTQ2S+, magical realism, fabulism, horror, graphic, narrative non-fiction, true crime, religion + spirituality, humanities + science.

Commercial Fiction Graphic Novel Horror Illustrated LGBTQ LGBTQ Literary Memoir Mystery Non-Fiction Rom-Com Romance Science Speculative Suspense Thriller True Crime Women's Fiction
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Danielle Chiotti

Agent

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Danielle has worked in publishing for sixteen years. Formerly an editor, she joined Upstart Crow when it was founded in 2009, specializing in young adult and middle grade fiction, as well as cookbooks, select nonfiction, and literary and upmarket fiction for adults. Thanks to her extensive editorial background, she enjoys working closely with authors to develop projects. She welcomes first-time authors with a unique voice and point of view.

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Chelsey Emmelhainz

Agent

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Chelsey Emmelhainz joined Copps Literary Services as a literary agent after a decade as an editor in the NYC publishing world, working on a wide range of adult commercial fiction and nonfiction. She’s a very editorial, collaborative agent, and loves new authors. Literary, commercial, women's, young adult, and genre fiction—mainly romance, erotica, horror, cozy mysteries, suspense, and thrillers—as well as nonfiction projects exploring subjects like gender issues, politics, pop culture, and history.

Erotica Fiction History Horror LGBTQ Literary Mystery Non-Fiction Politics Pop Culture Rom-Com Romance Suspense Thriller Women's Fiction
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Carina Licon

Editor

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Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Middle-grade and YA with a focus on books featuring underrepresented stories and voices. Character-driven, whipsmart protagonists, spooky and atmospheric MG speculative fiction, contemporary YA thrillers in the vein of JANE ANONYMOUS or SADIE, friendship breakup stories, romance with lots! of! angst!, and stories rich with diverse cultural traditions and storytelling.

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Caitlin McDonald

Agent

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Caitlin McDonald is an agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency, where she represents adult and young adult fantasy and science fiction as well as select nonfiction titles.

Fantasy Fiction Non-Fiction Science Fiction
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Blair Thornburgh

Editor

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Former Editor at Quirk Books, current independent editor. Blair says: I am always after intriguing, off-the-wall, geeky, smart, and/or lady-centric projects in both fiction and non-fiction. Genres: Fiction: Humor, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult. Non-Fiction: Cookbooks, Crafts/DIY, Humor, LGBTQ, Pop Culture, Science.

Crafts/DIY Fiction Humor Humor LGBTQ Non-Fiction Pop Culture Romance Science Science Fiction
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Bibi Lewis

Agent

Bibi Lewis is a literary agent with the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency, where she has been since 2014. She has always had her nose in a book and is delighted to represent a great mixture of Children’s and Adult books, especially Picture Books, MG adventure, YA Non-Fiction and Contemporary Fiction and Adult Romance and women’s fiction. She is the office manage and foreign rights manager for EELA and is a contract nerd through and through. She lives in NYC with a lot of plants and a chatty black cat.

Commercial Non-Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
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