Writers House is one of the largest agencies in the world and provides an extraordinary amount of individual client attention, combined with the full-service benefits of foreign rights, subrights (including audio and film), accounting, royalty, and contract departments. I am a junior agent actively growing my list of adult and children’s books. I’ve been at Writers House since my intern days back in 2018, since then, I’ve worked closely with the contracts department, and have supported Senior Agents Stephen Barr and Susan Cohen. Under their mentorship, I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with a range of award-winning authors and illustrators including Maggie Thrash, Anna Walker, Chuck Groenink, Jared Dillian, F.C. Yee, Jeanette Winter, Stacy Innerst, and Emily Hughes. Before joining Writers House, I studied Visual Arts and English at SUNY New Paltz and interned at not-for-profit art organizations like The Center for Photography at Woodstock and Musee Magazine. Now, combining my literary and artistic passions with my business sensibilities, I’m dying to read your work! As a Cancer sun, Virgo rising, and the eldest daughter of four siblings, I come well equipped as an intuitive, organized, and dedicated advocate. I am a passionate collaborator eager to support authors on this emotional journey to create lasting and inspiring projects. **I WILL BE TEMPORARILY CLOSED TO UNSOLICITED QUERIES STARTING MAY 1, 2025.** * Any queries sent on or before 5/1 will be honored. All other queries will be deleted without reading. * I will update this page when I reopen in a few months. (After I’ve caught up on the many wonderful queries already in my inbox!) I’m looking to work with authors and illustrators across all age ranges, in genres ranging from picture books to middle grade and YA, to adult literary fiction and nonfiction. My taste is wide ranging but below you’ll find some specifics… Adult Fiction I gravitate toward ambitious voice-driven literary novels. Stark and straightforward prose, and anything that dips into a territory that could be labeled subversive, strange, out-there, darkly humorous, disquieting, or Lynchian. Despite the darkness—or because of it—I’m also seeking writing that makes me laugh. More specifically… Writing where the absurd becomes increasingly indistinguishable from reality; genre bending horror and folklore (WHITE TEARS by Hari Kunzru, A CHILDREN’S BIBLE by Lydia Millet, ROUGE by Mona Awad, PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE by Samantha Allen) Propulsive stories about family, gender, and complex friendships and relationships (Recent favorite: IDLEWILD by James Frankie Thomas! I also loved MARLENA by Julie Buntin and DETRANSITION BABY by Torrey Peters) Subversive and experimental literary mysteries (RAINBOW BLACK by Maggie Thrash, THE SWALLOWS by Lisa Lutz, THE LIKENESS by Tana French) Character studies where the writing feels cerebral and interior (THE SARAH BOOK by Scott McClanahan, STEPHEN FLORIDA by Gabe Habash, CHEMISTRY by Weike Wang, THE IDIOT by Elif Bautman) Explorations of desire and obsession (LUSTER by Raven Leilani, I’M A FAN by Sheena Patel, BIG SWISS by Jen Beagin) Cultural critiques wrapped up in vivid storytelling (FRIDAY BLACK by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, THE MARS ROOM by Rachel Kushner) Interconnected stories with ambitiously cast characters, where lives unexpectedly collide (SKIPPY DIES by Paul Murray, THE GLASS HOTEL by Emily St. John Mandel, A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan, THE RABBIT HUTCH by Tess Gunty) Adult Nonfiction Overall, I’d love to work with passionate writers and journalists who aren’t afraid to stir the pot. I’m looking for narrative non-fiction (SAY NOTHING by Patrick Radden Keffee), microhistories about cultural histories (OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE by Michael Azerrad), issue-driven hybrid-memoirs (MONSTERS by Claire Dederer), and obsessive and honest essay collections (GO AHEAD IN THE RAIN & A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA by Hanif Abdurraqib). I’m especially inter