Adriana Domínguez is a New York-based Aevitas Creative Management partner with deep editorial roots in Latinx publishing who specializes in illustrated children's books, platform-driven narrative nonfiction across all ages, and select children's fiction—with a pronounced focus on diverse and underrepresented voices.
In brief
Her client roster is a who's-who of award-winning Latinx illustrators and authors—John Parra, Jacqueline Alcántara, Juliet Menéndez, Angela Cervantes, Maria Hinojosa—signaling that Latinx and underrepresented perspectives are not a side interest but the structural core of her list.
The sales record reveals a particularly strong picture-book illustration pipeline: she has sold or placed multiple titles for the same illustrators (Irena Freitas with three books, Angela Cervantes with four, Heidi Moreno with four), confirming she builds long-term client partnerships rather than one-off deals.
Her editorial background at Scholastic, Críticas Magazine/Library Journal, and as Executive Editor at HarperCollins' Rayo imprint gives her institutional relationships with major children's publishers that most agents cannot match.
She is an award-winning translator herself and serves on the LKBF Latinx Storyteller Conference organizing committee—her commitment to the Latinx publishing ecosystem is professional infrastructure, not merely a stated preference.
Submissions were closed as of late September 2025; writers should verify the form status before querying.
Lately
Her agency page was updated to reflect her current AALA membership focus (now listing Women's Media Group membership) and clarifies she accepts submissions exclusively through an online form—email submissions are not accepted.
What Adriana is looking for
Her single highest priority. She actively seeks illustrators with a fresh, unmistakable visual voice—a style so distinctive it could anchor a long career. Her current roster (John Parra, Jacqueline Alcántara, Juliet Menéndez, Irena Freitas, Tania de Regil, Heidi Moreno, and others) demonstrates she builds multi-book relationships with illustrators over time. Latinx and underrepresented cultural perspectives are woven throughout, but she does not restrict by background—what she cannot compromise on is a powerful, original visual identity.
She spans the full age range here, from picture-book nonfiction to adult narrative nonfiction, but emphasizes platform: the author must bring genuine authority, a built audience, or a credential that earns the subject. Her client Maria Hinojosa (Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist) and Katheryn Russell-Brown (NAACP Image Award winner) show the bar she sets. Nonfiction that illuminates underrepresented histories or amplifies marginalized voices aligns especially well with her track record.
She describes this as 'select,' meaning she is not broadly open to children's fiction submissions but will take on the right project. Her existing fiction clients—Angela Cervantes's chapter-book series and Emma Otheguy's chapter books and middle grade—show a preference for character-driven stories rooted in Latinx family life, identity, and community. A submission should have a strong cultural throughline or a truly distinctive narrative angle to stand out.
Across every category, she expressly welcomes work that offers a diverse point of view. This is not a genre but a through-line: submissions from authors and illustrators of underrepresented backgrounds, and stories centered on those communities, are structurally central to her list. Her founding role on the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival organizing committee and her AALA Illustration Committee work reinforce this as a career-defining commitment.
Not the right fit
On Adriana's list
Taste fingerprint
How to query Adriana
Confirm the form is open before submitting—it was closed as of September 25, 2025, with no announced reopening date.
If you are an illustrator, lead with your visual style and attach or link a strong portfolio sample; her top priority is an unmistakable, fresh aesthetic, so the work must speak immediately.
For narrative nonfiction at any age level, establish your platform and credential in the first paragraph—her clients in this category are journalists, award-winning educators, and subject-matter authorities.
If you are a children's fiction writer (picture book to middle grade), make the cultural specificity of your story concrete in the query; vague diversity claims will not move her—ground the story in a particular community, tradition, or lived experience.
Her roster is heavily Latinx but she welcomes diverse perspectives broadly; do not assume you must be Latinx to query, but do lead with whatever makes your cultural or community perspective genuine and specific.
She represents author-illustrators and pure illustrators; picture-book writers who are not also the illustrator should understand that her picture-book focus skews toward the illustration side—pitch accordingly or reconsider if you have no visual component.
Do not query her for YA, adult fiction, or genre fiction—her range stops at middle grade for fiction.