Literary agents who want books like Severance

Grimm's core territory. They want fiction with a singular voice and strong emotional stakes — contemporary, historical, speculative, and mysterious all qualify,…

This is Dolin's core. She gravitates toward novels with unmistakable voices, propulsive plots, and an edge—dark or offbeat humor, women in off-kilter circumstan…

Intergenerational stories rooted in specific cultural worlds — particularly Turkish, Iranian, and broader Middle Eastern or Asian contexts, though she is explic…

Devon's core priority. They want contemporary, speculative, women's fiction, romantic comedy, and YA that sits in the literary-to-upmarket register. The operati…

This may be where Esty's tastes run deepest. She wants prose that takes formal risks — the kind of sentence that makes a reader stop and question whether a writ…

His personal favorites — Yanagihara, Rooney, Ling Ma, Adichie — define the emotional register he's chasing: fiction that is formally ambitious or conceptually u…

Jacobson favors speculative work rooted in a world recognizably like ours, with a single twist or light fantastic element rather than full world-building. She i…

Scovel is drawn to adult fiction that sits at the intersection of literary and upmarket — work aimed at a millennial readership that carries some off-beat or qu…

This is her most emphatic fictional desire. She wants literary fiction with genuine strangeness — work that bends genre toward horror or satire without abandoni…