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Lucy Cleland is a Principal Literary Agent with Calligraph, representing idea-driven and narrative nonfiction of all stripes, upmarket fiction, and select children’s projects. Her clients have been Pulitzer finalists, winners of the NBCC Award and PEN America Awards, recipients of MacArthur “Genius” grants, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; their books have been featured in the New Yorker’s Briefly Noted, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and best books of the year lists, as well as ranked as USA Today Bestsellers and selected for Book of the Month Club. A southern transplant to Boston from Atlanta, Lucy graduated from Wellesley College and cut her teeth as an agent working closely with Jill Kneerim at Kneerim & Williams. She lives with her wife and a lot of books in Jamaica Plain. LUCY IS SEEKING:  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Beniamino Ambrosi (he/him) is the Foreign Rights Director and an Agent with The Cheney Agency, a premier literary agency founded in 2006. Beniamino is from Bari, southern Italy, and has a master’s degree in Languages and Literature from the University of Florence. He graduated from the PhD program in English Language Literature at the University of Florence. During and after graduate school, he worked as a literary translator, translating Paul Murray and Salvatore Scibona into Italian, among others. He moved to New York in 2009, and worked as a literary scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates for over a decade, advising international book publishers in over 20 countries, as well as film/TV clients such as Warner Bros. and Netflix. BENIAMINO IS SEEKING:  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Roma Panganiban (she/her) is a literary assistant with Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Roma graduated from Allegheny College with a degree in English and Psychology before taking on graduate studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature & Culture at the University of York (UK), a writing internship in Nicaragua, academic tutoring in the suburbs of New Jersey, and office management for a theatrical costume studio in Manhattan. She began her publishing career at The Gernert Company before joining Janklow & Nesbit in 2019, where she now assists Chris Clemans and Chad Luibl and works with writers across the adult and children’s markets. Roma is a member of the American Association of Literary Agents (AALA) and an ambivalent Twitter user (@romapancake). She lives in Brooklyn. ROMA IS SEEKING: Roma’s taste leans literary, but she is open to a broad range of fiction, including novels and collections that embrace genre elements—speculative, historical, mystery, sci-fi, fantasy—as well as those that defy categorization altogether.  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Aram Fox is a literary agent with MMQ, a full-service literary agency that focuses on bringing fiction and non-fiction of quality to the largest possible audience. At age 26, Aram founded a book scouting agency where for 23 years he represented international publishers and American film/TV companies, guiding his publisher and film/TV clients to acquire a Who’s Who of bestsellers and prize-winners, including: Brit Bennett, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Lauren Oyler, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Bill Gates, George Saunders, Angela Duckworth, Patrick Radden Keefe, Dave Grohl, Lena Dunham, Emma Cline, Harlan Coben, Jeff VanderMeer, Alex Honnold and Andy Weir among many others. He joined the MMQ agency in 2023. ARAM IS SEEKING: “Aram represents a mix of fiction and nonfiction. His favorite novelists, commercial as well as literary, put immersive storytelling front and center. In nonfiction, he’s looking for powerful memoir, natural history, deeply reported narrative nonfiction, and world-class explainers and advice-givers.”.....  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Alison MacKeen is a Partner and Literary Agent with Calligraph, representing idea-driven books that cast new light on fundamental features of human experience—from well-being to work, relationships to inequality, cognition to communication—often by approaching them from unexpected angles. Alison is privileged to represent a range of talented thinkers and writers. She takes huge pleasure in working with them to hone compelling proposals and connecting them with the editors who have the vision and commitment to help them realize their books’ full potential. Recent deals have included Avery, Crown, FSG, Little Brown, Penguin Press, Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and W.W. Norton. Before joining Calligraph, she was an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic and Park & Fine Literary and Media. Prior to that, she held editorial positions at Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, and Basic Books, among others. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Alison studied literature at McGill University and the University of Oxford before migrating to New York City, where she lives with her partner, kids, and cat. ALISON IS SEEKING...  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Jennifer Weis is the Founder and Lead Literary Agent of The Weis Agency. Jennifer has always had a passion for all things literary. After receiving her BA and MA in English from Yale University, she worked at St. Martin’s Press, serving as an Executive Editor and publishing bestselling titles like Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris, Climate of Hope by Michael Bloomberg, Baby Teeth by Zoe Stage, and Renia’s Diary by Renia Spiegel. In the fall of 2019, she moved to the other side of the desk as an agent. After several years with Ross Yoon Agency, Jennifer decided to continue to take her hands-on approach to client development to the next level by founding her own agency. Outside of the literary world, Jennifer is the co-chair of Project Lyme, a non-profit based in NYC that focuses on awareness, education, and advocacy. She also chairs the UJA Executive Committee for Publishing and is a UJA board member. She is based in NYC, where she lives with her husband and four children. JENNIFER IS SEEKING...  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Duvall Osteen is a literary agent with United Talent Agency. Duvall was raised in the South and is based in Manhattan, where she lives with her family. She holds a Master of Arts in Southern Cultural Studies from the University of Mississippi. Before joining UTA, she spent 11 years as an agent at Aragi Inc., focusing on literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, and graphic novels. She now represents a diverse list of debut, award-winning, bestselling, and notable authors. DUVALL IS SEEKING...  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Jessica Spitz is a literary agent with Janklow & Nesbit Associates. She began her publishing career at William Morris Endeavor, where she spent four years before joining Janklow & Nesbit as a literary agent in 2023. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and has lived in New York City since moving there to attend Columbia University. JESSICA IS SEEKING...  ABOUT THE AGENT:
Ksenia Tserkovskaya is a literary agent with The Deborah Harris Agency. Ksenia received her BA in Jewish Studies and Philology from the Moscow State University and her MA in Publishing and Language from the Oxford Brookes University. After graduating, she spent one year with the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature in Tel Aviv, then moved to Moscow for five years to work as Acquisitions and Rights Manager at the Knizhniki Publishing House. Ksenia has experience as a bookseller and social media manager. She has translated and edited books as a freelancer throughout her career, with 15 of her translations of Hebrew and English children’s and MG titles already published. KSENIA IS SEEKING... |
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