 ABOUT THE AGENT: Kim Carson Bodie joined Susan Schulman Literary Agency in 2025 after years of working thematically and geographically scattered jobs that mostly involved taking words out of the air and putting them on paper. She is interested in reading commercial and upmarket contemporary fiction with a literary bent, horror, slipstream, creative nonfiction, and memoir—particularly projects that feature strong voice, experimental structure, bold risks, and big swings. Kim gravitates toward themes of adolescence, monstrosity, class, innocence, memory, healing, freakishness, community, otherness, identity, the body, the natural world, and the concept of home. She will read anything that takes place at a carnival. Kim received her MFA from the University of Montana, where you can still find her gathering dirt under her fingernails, between the pages of her books, and in the cracks of her computer keyboard. She can usually be spotted alongside her dog, Townes Van Dog. KIM IS SEEKING: Kim loves a wide range of fiction. Voice, energy and propulsion are always going to be the elements that make a project irresistible to her, rather than a specific category of genre. You can read Kim's Manuscript Wish List here. Please read the following before submitting your work.
Here are some recent and not-so-recent books Kim would have loved to represent: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen Jawbone by Monica Ojeda Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan Writers and Lovers by Lily King Butter by Asako Yuzuki HOW TO SUBMIT: Please note: When we post a New Agent Spotlight, we try to make sure the agent is open to submissions at the time of posting. But as time goes by, an agent can close and open to submissions at any time. If some time has passed since this spotlight was posted, you will want to check their agency website and/or QueryManager before submitting, to be sure. To query Kim, send your information to: [email protected].  Attend a Writers Conference in 2026:
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