Manuscript Mart Fall 2025: Agents

Ty Anania represents adult fiction and nonfiction at WME, with some occasional crossover into YA fantasy and science fiction.

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Amanda is a junior agent with Belcastro Literary Agency and seeks manuscripts with a strong voice and gorgeous prose. She loves horror that finds the beauty in all things dark, things that keep her up at night, and the human experience. On the flipside, she's also on the hunt for a sweet rom-com, something that Kate Hudson would star in.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Senior Literary Agent Lori Galvin has been with Aevitas Creative Management since 2015.

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Amy has been an associate literary agent since 2020 and is with Belcastro Agency.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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