Literary Agents

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Geffen Semach will represent both fiction and nonfiction. She previously worked at Penguin Random House Canada.

Eric Smith, formerly of P.S. Literary Agency, has established Neighborhood Literary, based in Philadelphia.

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Danielle Marshall was formerly editorial director at Lake Union Publishing (Amazon), among other roles in traditional publishing and bookselling.

Pronoy Sarkar has joined as a literary agent; most recently he was an editor at Little, Brown. He is focused on nonfiction.

Michael Taeckens has joined as a literary agent; he will continue as publicist at Broadside PR, which he co-founded in 2015.

Ed Wood has joined as a fiction agent and director of fiction development at The Blair Partnership.

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Georgia Bodnar has launched Noyan Literary; she was formerly at UTA and Viking. The agency will represent both fiction and nonfiction writers.

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Agent Elena Giovinazzo and author Jason Reynolds have launched Heirloom Literary, a new literary agency for writers of all genres and ages.

Author and illustrator Jim Averbeck has joined East/West as a literary agent representing children’s authors and illustrators.

Agents have become ever more involved in indie author careers, especially as traditional publishers increasingly accept print-only deals.

Hailey Stephens accepts both fiction and nonfiction as well as select middle-grade works.

The London-based agency will represent literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction, and general nonfiction.

Literary agent Rachel Neumann has founded Wave Literary; most recently she was the CEO and senior literary agent at Idea Architects.

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Greenstone Literary Agency will specialize in commercial fiction and certain categories of nonfiction.

Kait Feldmann has joined KT Literary as an agent. Previously she worked at Scholastic and HarperCollins.

Alex Brown represents adult, YA, and children’s fiction authors. She is a Locus Award finalist who used to work on the CW show Supernatural.

Emma Fulenwider has joined as literary agent with a focus on adult nonfiction books in the general and Christian markets.

Thais Carreira Afonso interned at Writers House before joining Azantian.

Lori Steel has founded SteelWorks Literary; she was previously at Red Fox Literary.

A native New Yorker, Priscilla Posada is a literary translator and is pursuing an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College.