Agents for Manuscript Mart Fall 2025
Manuscript Mart registration is now open!
Scroll below to peruse the agents and editors participating in Manuscript Mart Fall 2025!
Agents and Editors whose appointments have sold out may be found by scrolling to the bottom of this page.
How to Register for Manuscript Mart Appointments
Registering with an agent for the Manuscript Mart is similar to signing up for a regular GrubStreet class or event.
Follow these simple steps to book your appointment:
- Make sure you are logged in to your GrubStreet.org account.
- Check below for the agent you’d like to book an appointment with.
- Click the registration link BELOW the agent's profile to go directly to their registration page.
>>> The REGISTRATION LINK you need to click on looks something like this: REGISTER FOR [AGENT NAME]
- Once on the registration page, you can add an appointment to your shopping cart and check out when you’re ready.
Important Note About Appointment Scheduling
- Manuscript Mart appointments will take place over Zoom.
- Zoom links and schedule times will be assigned mid-October 2025 and be emailed to each participant by 11:59 PM EDT on October 23, 2025.
- Meetings will run twenty minutes and be scheduled to start on the half-hour during each agent or editor's availability windows.
Cancellation Policies
Up until the manuscript sample submission deadline and close of registration on October 24, 2025, the Manuscript Mart adheres to GrubStreet's Refund and Cancellation Policy.
After the Manuscript Mart close of registration at 11:59 PM EDT on October 24, 2025, there are no refunds or credit for cancellations of Manuscript Mart appointments. If your manuscript sample is not received by the submission deadline of 11:59 PM EDT on October 24, 2025, your appointment will be considered cancelled and ineligible for refund or credit.
Agent: Ty Anania
Ty Anania represents adult fiction and nonfiction at WME, with some occasional crossover into YA fantasy and science fiction.
Agent: Amy Giuffrida
Amy has been an associate literary agent since 2020 and is with Belcastro Agency.
Agent: Veronica Goldstein
Veronica Goldstein is an agent with over ten years of experience, having previously worked at UTA and Fletcher & Company, and is now with DCL Literary Agency. She’s drawn to distinctive voices with a fresh story to tell and a strong sense of urgency, especially Americans whose stories have been underrepresented in publishing and international writers.
Agent: Chelsea Hensley
Chelsea Hensley is an agent at Mad Woman Literary Agency representing a varied list of clients writing across ages and genres and a few who are also illustrating.
Agent: Carrie Howland
Carrie Howland has over two decades of experience as a literary agent, working in two New York City–based literary agencies. She founded her own agency, Howland Literary, LLC in 2018.
Agent: Jill Marr
Jill Marr is a senior agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Building her own list now for the past 20 years, Jill is interested in adult commercial fiction, with an emphasis in romance (she's especially keen on dark romance at the moment), psychological suspense, and horror.
Agent: Rebecca Rodd
Rebecca Rodd is an Associate Agent at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency where she began in 2020. She represents both fiction and nonfiction writers covering all age groups.
Agent: Mason Rowlee
Originally from rural Upstate New York, Mason Rowlee holds a BA in English, with a concentration in creative writing and journalism from Fordham College at Rose Hill. While in college, he interned at DeFiore & Company (where he is now an agent), as well as McIntosh & Otis Literary Agency, Gotham Writers Workshop, CBS Television Production, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Agent: Lauren Scovel
LITERARY FICTION, MEMOIR, MULTICULTURAL
Lauren Scovel began her publishing career as an editorial intern at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth (now part of Aevitas Creative Management) and is now an agent with Laura Gross Literary Agency.
Agent: Mariah Stovall
Mariah Stovall is an agent at Trellis Literary Management, where she represents adult literary and upmarket fiction and narrative nonfiction, all with an emphasis on innovation, voice, and underrepresented perspectives.
Agent: Marin Takikawa
Marin Takikawa is an agent and foreign rights director at The Friedrich Agency. She's looking for subversive, genre-bending literary fiction, intersectional narrative nonfiction, and voice-driven and literary-leaning YA.
Agent: Ayla Zuraw-Friedland
Ayla Zuraw-Friedland joined the Frances Goldin Literary Agency in 2022 after starting her agenting career at The David Black Agency in 2019. She is interested in literary fiction and nonfiction that inspect big questions about queer identity, class, community, and art & technology through a personal lens.
Agent: Heather Carr (SOLD OUT)
At The Friedrich Agency, Heather seeks literary fiction and high-concept commercial fiction, including that which dabbles in the surreal and suspenseful. In nonfiction she’s looking for intersectional, voice-driven, narrative projects, and her areas of interest include science, nature, social justice, and culture.
REGISTER FOR HEATHER CARR
Agent: Haley Casey (SOLD OUT)
Haley Casey is an associate agent at Creative Media Agency and is actively building her list, is seeking diverse and compelling stories, and is ready to assist her authors in achieving their publishing goals.
REGISTER FOR HALEY CASEY
Agent: Jenni Ferrari-Adler (SOLD OUT)
Jenni Ferrari-Adler is a literary agent at Verve and specializes in literary fiction and loves everything from traditional novels to the dark and twisty, the voicey, the funny, and the strange. She represents family dramas, social novels, thrillers, horror, story collections, and is genre agnostic as long as there’s a distinct voice and exceptional command of storytelling and language.
REGISTER FOR JENNI FERRARI-ADLER
Agent: Lori Galvin (SOLD OUT)
Senior Literary Agent Lori Galvin has been with Aevitas Creative Management since 2015.
REGISTER FOR LORI GALVIN
Agent: Kaitlyn Katsoupis (SOLD OUT)
After receiving a BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College, Kaitlyn refused to leave the concept of nightly homework behind. A literary agent for Belcastro Literary Agency, she is also a freelance editor at her own company, Strictly Textual.
REGISTER FOR KAITLYN KATSOUPIS
Agent: Rayhané Sanders (SOLD OUT)
Rayhané Sanders is a literary agent at Massie McQuilkin & Altman with over 17 years of industry experience. She represents literary, historical, and upmarket book club fiction; a wide range of narrative nonfiction; and select memoir.
REGISTER FOR RAYHANÉ SANDERS
Agent: Margaret Sutherland Brown (SOLD OUT)
Margaret Sutherland Brown is a Vice President and literary agent at Folio Literary Management, representing literary and upmarket commercial fiction and select narrative non-fiction.
REGISTER FOR MARGARET SUTHERLAND BROWN