Before joining the Rees Agency in 2000, Ann was a freelance editor and writer; her work appeared in over thirty different publications. As an agent, Ann’s looking for literary fiction; upscale commercial women’s; crime, including mystery, thriller and psychological suspense (particularly drawn to darker stuff, but actively looking for the right cozy–something set in a milieu that’s fresh and new); upscale Western (more Larry McMurtry than Cormac McCarthy); historical (any period but would especially love to find something set in ancient Greece or ancient Rome); military and war; horror (really scary stuff, no gentle vampires or caring werewolves) and anything featuring martial arts, biker gangs, fiction set in SE Asia or a kick ass female protagonist. No YA, children’s, Christian, erotica, romance, sci-fi, or high fantasy (Lord of the Rings type books, with elves and dragons).

In non fiction Ann’s looking for narrative non fiction; military and war, particularly the Asian theatre in WWII; race and class; work set in SE Asia; biography; pop culture; film (particularly action or martial arts); opera; humor; and memoir (high prose quality is a must). No Christian, religion, philosophy or parenting books.

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The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
Hollow Man by Mark Pryor
Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver

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Ayanna Coleman founded Quill Shift Literary Agency in 2013. With an educational background in marketing and English, Ayanna has worked within the publishing industry at a publishing house, literary agencies, as a book reviewer, programming and event director, and many years as a children’s librarian. She also earned a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, currently the top program in the nation.

As a child, and later as a librarian, Ayanna noticed that the books that could capture a child’s imagination and create a lifelong reader were not getting into children’s hands. Children (and their parents, teachers, and librarians) weren’t discovering the right books…or they hadn’t been created yet. With that in mind, Ayanna created Quill Shift Literary Agency to not only help usher books worthy of inspiring a passion for reading in children through the publication process, but to also encourage worthwhile story discovery before the book is even published.

Ayanna is looking for middle grade and young adult fiction in all genres. Bring her stories with plucky, realistic characters that represent our multicultural society who grow throughout an engrossing plot in a setting that sucks the reader in.

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Chris Clemans is an agent at The Clegg Agency. He received his BA in English from Duke University, where he also minored in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. After a short stint in journalism, he began his career in publishing at William Morris Endeavor, where as an agent trainee with Bill Clegg he worked closely with award-winning writers such as Rivka Galchen, Lauren Groff, Ottessa Moshfegh, Akhil Sharma, and Matthew Thomas. In 2014, Chris left WME to help Bill start The Clegg Agency, where he has since been working with a growing list of his own writers. His fiction tastes tend toward the literary, gravitating to novels and stories that exhibit unique voices and intrepid imaginations. On the nonfiction side, he’s interested in narrative nonfiction and literary memoir.

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Lauren Groff
Rivka Galchen
Akhil Sharma

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Lane Shefter Bishop is a multi-award winning producer/director who’s received numerous accolades including an EMMY, six Telly Awards, a Videographer Award, three Communicator Awards, a Sherril Corwin Award, an Aurora Award, a Davey Award, an NY Festivals Award and the DGA Fellowship Award for Episodic Television.

Currently, Ms. Bishop is CEO of Vast Entertainment, a book-to-screen company with projects including feature films: Reboot (Peter Chernin Ent) for Fox 2000, The Last Apple (Silver Pics & Ineffable Pics), The Killer In Me and Hunter’s Moon (Todd Garner/Broken Road), Reset (Ellen Goldsmith-Vein/Gotham Group) and The Duff (McG/Wonderland – released 2015) for CBS Films & Lionsgate; Mow: The Choking Game (Orly Adelson Prods – released 2014) for Lifetime, which Ms. Bishop also directed; limited series: Dead Run (Jane Goldenring Prods) and TV series: Confessions of a Sociopath (Mike Medavoy/Phoenix Pics), Shifters (Chuck Roven/Atlas Ent), The Body Institute (Storyline Ent/Zadan&Meron Prods) and Anne Perry’s ‘The Investigator’ (Lauren Shuler Donner/Donner Co). Additionally, Ms. Bishop co-produced the film Assassination Games for MPCA. Ms. Bishop is also the former EVP of Motion Pictures and TV at TwinStar Ent.

Ms. Bishop is also author of Sell Your Story in a Single Sentence, being published by WW Norton & Co (May 2016). In a recent online interview, CNN dubbed her “The Book Whisperer” of Hollywood.

Ms. Bishop holds a B.A. in Literature from UCSB and an M.F.A. in Production from USC. She is a director-member of the DGA and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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Anne Perry
Amy Tintera
Kody Keplinger

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Laura Biagi joined the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency Inc. (JVNLA) in 2009. She is actively seeking adult literary fiction and young readers’ fiction (YA, middle grade, and picture books). Of particular interest to her are dynamic characters, vivid and unexpected sentences, complex narrative arcs, psychological twists, magical realism, cultural themes, social issues, absurdism, thrillers that break the genre mold, and elements that challenge the way we typically view the world. Laura also handles the sale of UK and Australian rights, as well as audio rights. She grew up in a small town in Kentucky and graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in creative writing and anthropology. Her writing background has honed her editorial eye and has driven her enthusiasm for discovering and developing literary talent.

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Noah Ballard joined Curtis Brown, Ltd. in 2014 after beginning his career at Emma Sweeney Agency. He represents literary fiction including mystery and thriller and popular nonfiction with an emphasis on narrative. Noah has appeared across the country speaking at MFA programs and writing conferences where he has spoken about query letters, building nonfiction platforms and submission etiquette. He graduated from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and he currently resides in Brooklyn.

Sample Titles

Last Night in the Or by Bud Shaw, MD
Flings by Justin Taylor
Cambodia Noir by Nick Seeley

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Eve Attermann has worked in WME’s Literary Department since 2011, representing a varied list of literary and commercial fiction writers, journalists and historians. Her clients include Melissa Scrivner Love, Hollie Overton, Elizabeth Plank, Amanda Chicago Lewis, Virginia Grohl, Laci Green, Elise Strachan, Steve Aoki, Greg Dybec, and Danielle Blau, among others. Eve started her career at Little, Brown and Company after graduating from Vanderbilt University with a BA in European History and English Literature.

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Laci Green
Hollie Overton
Melissa Scrivner Love

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Reiko Davis is an agent at DeFiore and Company. Before joining DeFiore in early 2016, she was at Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency for four years. She received her BA in Comparative Literature and Art History from Brown University, and is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course. Above all, she wants to discover books that surprise her and make her feel something. She represents young adult and middle grade authors, as well as authors of adult fiction and narrative nonfiction.

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The Marked Girl by Lindsey Klingele (HarperCollins Children’s, June 2016)
Having the Last Say: Capturing Your Legacy in One Small Story by Alan Gelb (Tarcher/Penguin, 2015)
A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (University of Wisconsin Press, Fall 2016)

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Regina Brooks is the founder and president of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC, based in Brooklyn, New York.  She represents a  diverse base of award-winning clients in adult and young adult fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, including: three-time National Book Award finalist, Newberry Honor Winner and the Coretta Scott King Honor and the 2006 Michael Printz Honor Award-winning author Marilyn Nelson; winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, Al Roker’s Book Club for Kids author Sundee Frazier; Stonewall Book Award Winner, Bil Wright.

Brooks is a former Executive Editor at John Wiley and Sons and McGraw-Hill.

She is the author of several books including, Never Finished Never Done (Scholastic), Writing Great Books for Young Adults (Source Books) You Should (Really) Write A Book: Writing, Selling, and Marketing Your Memoir (St. Martin’s Press) and a well received blogger for the Huffington Post.  Brooks is also on the faculty of the Writer’s Digest University, Harvard University publishing course, The Discovery Channel’s Media Boot Camp for Doctors,  the Whidbey Island Writers MFA program and teaches annually at more than twenty worldwide conferences.  She has been highlighted in several national and international magazines and periodicals, including Forbes, Media Bistro, Writers and Poets, Essence Magazine, Ebony, Jet, Women on Writing, Writers Digest Magazine, and The Writer.  She is the owner of Possibiliteas.co, a tea company of master blended teas developed for creative minds.  She is always interested in new and emerging writers. www.serendipitylit.com

Specialize	Consider	Do Not Represent
Adventure	–		–
Chick Lit	–		–
Children’s		–	–
Christian		–	–
Commercial Fiction		–	–
Crime		–	–
Erotica	–		–
Family Saga	–		–
Fantasy	–		–
Gay & Lesbian		–	–
Graphic Novels	–		–
Historical Fiction	–		–
Horror	–		–
Humor/Satire		–	–
Literary Fiction		–	–
Middle Grade		–	–
Military/Espionage	–	–
Multi-Cultural		–	–
Mystery	–		–
Offbeat/Quirky		–	–
Romance		–	–
Science Fiction	–	–
Short Story Collections	–	–
Thrillers/Suspense		–	–
Western	–	–
Women’s Fiction		–	–
Young Adult		–	–

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Adventure/True Story	–	–
Art	–	–
Biography		–	–
Business		–	–
Celebrity		–	–
Cookbooks		–	–
Cultural/Social Issues		–	–
Current Affairs		–	–
Dating/Relationships	–		–
Film & Entertainment		–	–
Finance		–	–
Food & Lifestyle		–	–
Gardening		–	–
Gay & Lesbian	–		–
Gift Books		–	–
Health & Fitness		–	–
History		–	–
Home/Design		–	–
How-To		–	–
Humor		–	–
Journalism		–	–
Juvenile		–	–
Medical		–	–
Memoir		–	–
Military/War	–	–
Multi-Cultural	–		–
Music		–	–
Narrative	–		–
Nature/Ecology	–		–
Parenting		–	–
Pets		–	–
Photography		–	–
Politics		–	–
Pop Culture		–	–
Psychology		–	–
Religion	–		–
Science		–	–
Self-Help		–	–
Spirituality		–	–
Sports		–	–
Technology		–	–
Travel		–	–
True Crime	–		–
Women’s Issues		–	–

Steven Woodward is an associate editor at Graywolf Press, where he’s worked with Margaret Lazarus Dean, Justin Hocking, Angela Palm, Benjamin Percy, and Susan Steinberg, among others. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, and holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. He has spoken about publishing at a number of conferences and venues, including AWP, the Loft Literary Center, Bread Loaf, and the University of Minnesota.

Sample Titles

Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here by Angela Palm
Woke Up Lonely: A Novel by Fiona Maazel
Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock

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Liz Stein is an editor at Park Row Books, a division of Harlequin/HarperCollins, where she acquires and edits upmarket commercial and literary fiction, psychological suspense and literary thrillers, women’s fiction, and select narrative nonfiction. Park Row was launched in 2016 and is a dedicated to publishing an exclusive list of voice-driven and thought-provoking books across a variety of genres. Liz seeks books that are beautifully written with a strong narrative voice, interesting, memorable characters, and a powerful story at heart. She enjoys both contemporary and historical settings, and has a soft spot for stories with a multicultural appeal, quirky characters, domestic dramas, coming-of-age tales, unreliable narrators, stories about the immigrant experience, and high-concept fiction that will resonate with book clubs. She is excited to be publishing the forthcoming novels The Original Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig, The Blind by A.F. Brady, and We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt. Prior to joining Park Row, Liz most recently acquired for the G.P. Putnam’s Sons imprint of Penguin Random House, and previously, Liz worked alongside Amy Einhorn at her eponymous imprint with such New York Times–bestselling authors as Kathryn Stockett, Liane Moriarty, Jenny Lawson, Sarah Blake, Eleanor Brown. Liz began her publishing career in the managing editorial department of Dutton books.

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The Original Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
Find Me by J.S. Monroe
Things We Have In Common  by Tasha Kavanagh

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Monica Odom is an agent at Bradford Literary Agency, where she represents nonfiction by authors and illustrators with demonstrable platforms in the areas of pop culture, science, history, business, social issues, race, feminism, illustration/art/design, food/cooking, humor, travel/adventure, self-help/self-reflection, and DIY/crafting/how-to, for all ages but primarily adult. In nonfiction, she loves to see a personal project turn into something original and surprising.

Monica also represents select fiction—primarily literary fiction and upmarket commercial fiction for adults—but is open to literary/upmarket commercial Middle Grade and YA with a particular appeal to her taste (see her Manuscript Wish List for more details on taste). In fiction, she likes to see original storytelling, incredible voice, compelling characters, and a vivid, detailed setting. If there’s a strong sense of narrative tension, that’s a plus. Monica is also looking for graphic novels and picture books, but only by author/illustrators. She does not represent genre fiction.

Monica is serious about the fact that We Need Diverse Books and is looking for authentic representation of all characters. She enjoys working closely with her clients to fine-tune manuscripts and develop proposals, and helping guide those clients throughout future projects and their publishing careers.

Prior to joining Team Bradford in 2015, she worked for five years managing finance, subrights and social media at Liza Dawson Associates, and became an associate agent there in 2013. Monica earned her Masters in Publishing: Digital & Print Media from New York University in 2014.

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This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
Women In Science + Women In Sports by Rachel Ignotofsky
A Daze Work  by Siobhan Gallagher

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Stephen Barr is a senior literary agent at Writers House, where he started out as an intern in 2008. He graduated from UCLA with an English Degree in 2007, then moved to New York City primarily because of how cool Robert Downey, Jr. made publishing look in the film adaptation of Michael Chabon’s “Wonder Boys.” He represents a broad list of both children’s and adult books, and his clients include National Book Award finalist John Corey Whaley (“Noggin,”) LA Times Book Prize nominee Maggie Thrash (“Honor Girl,”) actress and NYT bestseller Brooke Shields (“There Was a Little Girl,”) and the co-hosts of the award-winning podcast “Stuff You Should Know,” Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant.

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Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
FraidyZoo by Thyra Heder
Buried in the Sky  by Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan

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Maggie Riggs is the principal agent at The Riggs Agency, which she founded in 2015. Previously, she was an editor at Viking, an imprint within Penguin Random House, a freelance book editor with NY Book Editors, and an associate agent at The Friedrich Agency. The Riggs Agency is a boutique agency which specializes in literary fiction, and select non-fiction projects including narrative nonfiction, essays, memoir, and food writing. Riggs is particularly interested in works from fiction writers of color, and diverse voices of all kinds.

Sample Titles

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain by Adrianne Harun
The Playwright’s House by Dariel Suarez

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Kerry D’Agostino is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from Bowdoin College, her masters in Art in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her certificate in publishing from the Columbia Journalism School. Shortly after graduating from Columbia, she started at Curtis Brown as assistant to Tim Knowlton and Holly Frederick in the Film and Television Department. After some time as a film and audio rights associate, she also began assisting Peter Ginsberg. In addition to her continued work with Peter, Kerry now represents authors of literary and commercial fiction, and select narrative nonfiction. She is particularly interested in work that is voice driven, accessible, and authentic. Above all, she is drawn to work that either introduces her to someone, somewhere, or something new, or makes her see something old in a new way. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

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Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down by Anne Valente
Every Kiss a War by Leesa Cross-Smith
Love and Other Rituals  by Monica Macansantos

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Monika Woods began her publishing career working for Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group after graduating from the Columbia Publishing Course. Her interests include literary and commercial fiction, and compelling non-fiction in food, popular culture, science, and current affairs. Some of her dream projects include historical fiction about feminists, darkly suspenseful stories (both true and made-up) with unreliable narrators, anything about Poland and its history, nonfiction that is creatively critical, and above all, novels written in a singular voice. Monika lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and two cats and can be found writing about the book she just finished at www.booksijustread.com or @booksijustread.

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Mira Gonzalez 
David Burr Gerrard
Allison Yarrow  

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Daniel is the director of children’s publishing at Workman Publishing Company where he oversees a team of designers, editors, and inventors in the pursuit of creating “art objects for great and terrible children.” Before that, he was digital editorial director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, editor at Clarion Books, and before that, a professional pastry chef. Daniel was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the author of several books for young readers, including STRAW HOUSE, WOOD HOUSE, BRICK HOUSE, BLOW: Four Novellas, and HOW TO TELL A STORY.

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Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow by Daniel Nayeri
How to Tell a Story by Daniel Nayeri

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Raised in California’s Bay Area, Marya studied literature at Harvard with a specialty in creative writing, and was the Fiction Editor for the Advocate. She received her MFA at New York University, where she also taught undergraduate creative writing. She has also worked at The New Yorker, PAPER Mag, Travel & Leisure, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, METROPOLIS Magazine, and more. As someone who values craft from the writer’s perspective, Marya represents a diverse range in fiction and nonfiction, including, but not limited to, literary and upmarket commercial novels, cultural criticism and voice-driven essays, narrative journalism with a humorous or critical edge, and pop culture. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Jamie Lauren Keiles

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Born in Colorado and a graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine, Katie Grimm moved to New York City to be the assistant for Don Congdon Associates in 2007. She is now focused on her own list of authors as well as handling several agency Estates, but she still greatly enjoys managing the business side of an agency with a list that spans 70 years. She is also a member of the AAR and SCBWI.

Her current client roster is divided between authors who write for adult and children’s audiences. In adult, she focuses on Literary and Upmarket Fiction – be it voicey, historical, mysterious, or speculative – that has something to say about interpersonal relationships. She’s also looking for Narrative Non-Fiction that blends the personal and investigative for a deeper emotional understanding of a topic. In kid’s, she loves the idea of finding new heartfelt and magical Middle Grade classics as well as Young Adult novels with genre elements and the immediacy of feeling that comes with being a teenager. Across all genres, she’s looking for books with a heartbeat, and she’ll always be interested in the darker and weirder side of human history as well as previously under- or misrepresented voices and experiences.

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Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
The Distance to Home by Jenn Bishop
Speak Easy, Speak Love  by McKelle George

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Caroline Eisenmann was raised in the Boston area and received an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. Prior to joining ICM Partners in 2013, she worked at the digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media. She represents upmarket and literary fiction, as well as nonfiction with a focus on social and cultural history, narrative journalism, memoir, and select business titles. In fiction, she is particularly drawn to work that centers around intimacy and its discontents, stories about obsession, novels driven by relationships, and work that grapples with our current cultural climate. In nonfiction, she appreciates voice-driven explorations of the world around us and engaging narratives. She lives in Manhattan.

Sample Titles/Authors

For The Doubts by Meghan Flaherty
Kyle Chayka
Brandon Hobson
Mari Passananti

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