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David Kuhn
CO-CEO

CO-CEO

David Kuhn

David Kuhn has represented Amy Schumer'due south #1New York Times bestsellerThe Daughter with the Lower Dorsum Tattoo,Liaquat Ahamed'south Pulitzer Prize-winning bestsellerLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, every bit well equally books byNew York Times columnist Charles Blow; Pulitzer Prize-winningWashington Post critic Robin Givhan; comedian-writer-actors Jessi Klein, Casey Wilson, Paul Scheer, and June Diane Raphael;New Yorker editor/writers Susan Morrison and Mary Norris;New York Timesreporters Jeremy Peters and Vanessa Friedman andNew York Times Editorial Board member Jesse Wegman; Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel; quondamNew Yorker Drawing Editor Bob Mankoff; performance artist Marina Abramovic; painter David Salle; legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw; announcer Charlayne Hunter-Gault;Ms.magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin; opera singer Jessye Norman; model/activist Emily Ratajkowski; music producer and DJ Mark Ronson; lawyer and journalist Steven Brill; scholar and television producer Henry Louis Gates Jr.; way designers Isaac Mizrahi, Zac Posen, Betsey Johnson, and Patricia Field; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); former Congressman Steve Israel; filmmaker Bong Joon-ho; actor/environmentalist Ted Danson; thespian-writers Gabourey Sidibe, Jim Carrey, John Lithgow, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Pamela Anderson, Gina Gershon,Griffin Dunne, and Rosie Perez; and institutions including New York magazine, The Women'south March, andThe Wall Street Journal.

Kuhn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and worked for many years every bit a magazine editor. He was Senior Editor atVanity Fair, Features Director atThe New Yorker(where he as well edited the "Talk of the Town" and "Shout & Murmurs" pages as well every bit a dozen of the magazine's non-fiction Special Issues), and Editor in Primary atBrill's Content.

Kuhn, based in New York, represents nonfiction books that will brainwash, entertain, and enlighten in the areas of memoir, current events, history, politics, culture, mode, nutrient, music, and entertainment.
Todd Shuster
CO-CEO

CO-CEO

Todd Shuster

Todd Shuster represents such authors as James South. Hirsch, who wrote the New York Times bestselling Hurricane; Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson, author of the bestselling memoir Around the Way Girl; Pulitzer Prize-winning strange correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman; and Deval L. Patrick, quondam Governor of Massachusetts. Todd also works with numerous prestigious institutions including The Boston Consulting Group, The Boston Earth, and Jeter Publishing, Derek Jeter'southward eponymous imprint at Simon & Schuster. Films Todd has helped shepherd to the large screen include Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon;Blackness Mass, starring Johnny Depp; and The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith.

Post-obit college at Yale and police school at Northeastern University, Shuster practiced publishing and amusement law at the police force firms of Palmer & Dodge and Ropes & Grayness. He founded the literary agency Zachary Shuster Harmsworth which recently merged with Kuhn Projects to form Aevitas.

Based in New York, Shuster represents both fiction and nonfiction. His nonfiction list primarily focuses on electric current diplomacy, politics and civil rights, health and wellness, memoir, business, and history. His fiction list includes both literary and commercial novels, including mysteries and thrillers.
Esmond Harmsworth
PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

Esmond Harmsworth

Esmond Harmsworth has represented the #one Wall Street Periodical business bestseller and New York Times bestsellerBreakthrough: Secrets of America's Fastest Growing Companies past Keith McFarland; Amanda Ripley'due south New York Times bestsellerThe Smartest Kids in the World—And How They Got That Way; the thrilling Southern Gothic mystery The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young; and Michelle Hoover's acclaimed literary novel Bottomland.

Born in London, Harmsworth was educated in England before graduating magna cum laude from Brown Academy and cum laude from Harvard Law School. He was a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency which merged with Kuhn Projects to form Aevitas.

Based in Boston, Harmsworth represents serious nonfiction books on topics such as politics, psychology, culture, business organization, history and science. For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery and offense, thriller, suspense and horror, and historical novels.
Toby Mundy
CEO ACM UK

CEO ACM Great britain

Toby Mundy

Toby Mundy represented the recent bestsellersDamaged Goods, Oliver Shah'south biography of Philip Green;The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart;Ruby-red River Girl by Joanna Jolly,Who Tin can You Trust? by Rachel Botsman; andMaestra past Lisa Hilton. His clients include Tobias Buck, Stephen Bush, Ruth Brandon, James Crabtree, Michael Dine, Daniel Finkelstein, Charles Handy, Tiffany Jenkins, Andrew Not bad, Ivan Krastev, Ian Leslie, Owen Matthews, Paul Morland, Arkady Ostrovsky, Nicolas Pelham, Leigh Phillips, Richard V Reeves, Jonathan Rowson, Donald Sassoon, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Christian Wolmar and Emma Young. He too represents organisations such equallyThe How to: Academy;Stylist magazine; New Scientist,theTLSand The Browser.com.

Before becoming a literary agent, Toby founded Atlantic Books Limited, where he served as chief executive and publisher from 2000 to 2014, publishing a significant number of number of bestsellers and prize-winning titles. He won 'Editor of the Year' and Atlantic Books also won 'Banner of the Year' (2005, 2008) and 'Contained Publisher of the Year' (2008) at the British Book Awards. He is also executive director of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, the most prestigious non-fiction book prize in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland; chair of trustees of Wimbledon BookFest, a registered charity; chair of the advisory board of The Sun Times — Audible Curt Story Award; and a patron of the Uk's National Festival of the Humanities, which is run by the University of London'south School of Advanced Study. He was a non-executive manager of Prospect Publishing Limited for 10 years, where he was also a contributing editor and editorial lath fellow member. He has also been an active informational board member of, the Legatum Institute and Demos recall tanks, and has appeared regularly on the Evening Standard's listing of London'southward 1,000 Near Influential People. In 2016, he appeared in Esquire magazine's listing of Britain's 100 'Most Continued' men.

He is looking for gripping narrative non-fiction, and well written, mind-expanding works in the areas of history, biography, memoir, electric current affairs, sport, pop civilization and popular science. He also represents a small number of thriller writers and literary novelists.
Jennifer Gates
SENIOR PARTNER

SENIOR PARTNER

Jennifer Gates

Jennifer Gates has represented numerous New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, amidst them Mira Bartók, author of the bestselling and NBCC Honour winner The Retentivity Palace and the forthcoming The Wonderling; Maya Soetoro-Ng'due south Ladder to the Moon; Eva Longoria's Eva'southward Kitchen; Thomas P.M. Barnett'southward The Pentagon'due south New Map; and Chris Gardner'southward #1 New York Times bestseller The Pursuit of Happyness.

Gates received her BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University and worked in social services before condign an editor at a sectionalization of HarperCollins. She joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an agent in 1997. Jennifer Gates is a Senior Partner with Aevitas and Director of Strategic Partnerships.

Based in New York, Gates represents a range of nonfiction, including narrative and expert-driven works, memoir, current affairs, pop civilisation, every bit well every bit literary fiction and children's books.
Laura Nolan
SENIOR PARTNER

SENIOR PARTNER

Laura Nolan

Laura Nolan represents New York Times bestselling authors, chefs, musicians, and celebrities including Neil Patrick Harris; actor and math abet, Danica McKellar; actor Christine Lahti; musicians Sara Bareilles, John Fogerty, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, and Martha Wainwright; Master Chef Anita Lo; and bestselling investigative journalist Scott Carney among others.

Nolan has worked for over twenty-5 years in the publishing manufacture, both as a literary amanuensis and as a digital pioneer, having helped launch Barnes & Noble'south e-book publishing programme in 2001. Before joining Aevitas, Nolan was the head of book publishing partitioning for Paradigm Talent Bureau.

Based in New York, Nolan represents platform-driven narrative nonfiction in the areas of celebrity, music, investigative journalism, women'southward issues, culling health, and lifestyle. She is passionate about cookbooks and food narrative informed by politics or science. She is seeking challenging ideas, incisive writing that asks "big" questions, and artists who are successful in one medium but whose talents and passion interpret into narrative.
Janet Silvery
SENIOR PARTNER

SENIOR PARTNER

Janet Silver

Janet Silvery represents a roster of bestselling and award-winning authors of literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Her list of acclaimed clients includes Cheryl Strayed, author of the international bestsellers Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things; Anthony Marra, writer of the New York Times bestselling novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and the story collection The Tsar of Love and Techno; Monique Truong, winner of the Asian American Literary Award for her novel The Book of Salt; Hanna Pylväinen, winner of a Whiting Award for her novel We Sinners; and Safiya Sinclair, award-winning writer of the poesy collection Cannibal and the forthcoming How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir.

Janet brings in-depth knowledge of the publishing manufacture and extensive editorial experience to her work equally an agent. Before joining Aevitas, she was Publisher at the former Houghton Mifflin Company, where she worked with such renowned authors as Philip Roth, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tim O'Brien, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

At Aevitas, Janet represents authors whose piece of work is notable for compelling storyIines, singular voices, and unique perspectives. She has been a trustee of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Heart and is on the advisory board of Ploughshares magazine. She was featured in the Poets and Writers commodity "Agents equally Editors."
Bridget Wagner Matzie
PARTNER

PARTNER

Bridget Wagner Matzie

Bridget Wagner Matzie has represented projects such as the #1New York Times bestsellerShattered by Jon Allen and Amie Parnes, the national bestsellerThe Example for Impeachment by Allan Lichtman, theNew York Times bestsellerThe Party Is Over past Mike Lofgren, the acclaimed novelThe Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur, as well as Smithsonian scientist Nick Pyenson's Spying on Whales, and Emory Professor Crimson Lal's Empress, amid others.

Matzie graduated from Colgate Academy with a BA in English language and Writing. She attended the Columbia Academy publishing program and later worked for ICM in New York and London, as an agent and rights director at The Sagalyn Agency, and as foreign rights manager at Random Firm India. Matzie represents nonfiction and commercial fiction every bit an Aevitas amanuensis based in Washington, DC., whereWashingtonian Magazine listed her as one of DC's top book agents. She is most interested in potent original ideas, new and international voices, big-think topics and books that challenge readers and create discussion.
Rick Richter
PARTNER

PARTNER

Rick Richter

Rick Richter represents or (co-represents) numerous contempo New York Times bestselling authors in both the adult and children's markets, including the estate of Albert Einstein for the #1 bestselling serial Max Einstein, Rolling Stone announcer Andy Greene for The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, Sgt. Travis Mills and Marcus Brotherton for Tough as They Come up, Marc and Angel Chernoff for Getting Back to Happy, Grace Byers for I Am Enough, and the estate of Muhammad Ali for Becoming Muhammad Ali.

Richter spent over a decade on Simon & Schuster'due south Executive Committee equally President, Children'southward Book Sectionalization and President of Sales and Distribution, and brings a wide range of publishing and media expertise to his role at Aevitas. His areas of involvement include cocky-help, pop culture, memoir, history, thriller, true criminal offense, political and social bug, narrative food writing, and faith. He has deep experience and interest in children'south books, having overseen two of the nation'due south superlative children's publishers: Simon & Schuster and Candlewick Press.
Jane von Mehren
PARTNER

PARTNER

Jane von Mehren

Jane von Mehren represents leading thinkers including paleontologist Stephen Brusatte's internationally bestselling The Rising and Fall of Dinosaurs, political economist Mauro Guillen'due south internationally bestselling 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Time to come of Everything, historian Susan Stryker's Changing Gender, announcer and memoirist Kendra James's Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School and fiction such as Minrose Gwin's award-winning The Accidentals, Kevin Morris's Gettysburg, and Jonathan Santlofer's The Concluding Mona Lisa.

She holds a BA with honors from Vassar College. Before becoming an agent, von Mehren was an editor and publishing executive at Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and Random House, most recently as a Senior Vice President and Publisher at Random Business firm.

Working out of Aevitas's New York role, von Mehren is interested in narratives in the areas of business, history, memoir, popular culture and science, books that assist us alive our all-time lives, literary, volume social club, and historical fiction.
Sarah Bowlin
SENIOR Agent

SENIOR Amanuensis

Sarah Bowlin

Sarah Bowlin joined Aevitas in early 2017 afterwards a decade as an editor of literary fiction and nonfiction. She has worked on the international breakout novelHow Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti; theNew York Times Notable Book,The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips; the National Volume Laurels-nominated The Cease by Salvatore Scibona; the acclaimed novels Marlena by Julie Buntin and Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong; and works past the award-winning novelist, Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

Bowlin has a BA in American Literature from New York Academy. Originally from the South, she got her start in publishing at Riverhead Books and was virtually recently a senior editor at Henry Holt & Visitor.

Equally an Aevitas agent based in Los Angeles, she is focused on assuming, various voices in fiction and nonfiction. She's peculiarly interested in stories of strong or difficult women and unexpected narratives of place, of identity, and of the shifting ways we see ourselves and each other. She'south also interested in nutrient history, wine, and dance.
Adriana Domínguez
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR Agent

Adriana Domínguez

Adriana Dominguez represents honor-winning illustrators including John Parra, a New York Times All-time Illustrator and recipient of 3 Pura Belpré Honors, Kirkus Prize finalist Jacqueline Alcántara, and Orbis Pictus Honor recipient Juliet Menéndez. Her author listing includes NAACP Paradigm Award winner Katheryn Russell Brown, Pura Belpré Award recipient Angela Cervantes and Emmy Honor-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.

Adriana has wide-ranging experience in publishing; she began her editorial career at Scholastic in the 1990s, served equally Children's Reviews Editor at Críticas Magazine (Library Journal), and as Executive Editor at HarperCollins, where she led the children's division of the Latinx-focused Rayo imprint. She has a long trajectory of supporting authors and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds and always welcomes submissions that offer a various signal of view.

Adriana is interested in illustrators with fresh, unmistakable styles, platform-driven narrative nonfiction from children to adult, and select children'southward fiction from picture books to center form. She is based in New York.

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David Granger
SENIOR Agent

SENIOR Agent

David Granger

Granger takes on projects with the potential to leave a mark. He, along with Todd Shuster, worked with erstwhile deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe on his #one New York Times bestseller, The Threat. More recently, he and Laura Nolan represented Hunter Biden on his memoir, Beautiful Things , which debuted at #4 on the NYT list. Granger is especially proud of having worked with Julie Yip-Williams to bring her The Unwinding of the Miracle (a #6 NYT bestseller) into the globe. Information technology is currently being adapted for the screen. He has likewise helped Senator Jeff Scrap, business legend Arthur Blank, and young activists David and Lauren Hogg with bestsellers that shaped the national conversation.

Granger was the editor-in-principal of Esquire mag for 19 years, from 1997 until 2016. During his tenure, the magazine won 17 National Magazine Awards and Granger was the manufacture's editor of the year on three separate occasions. He was inducted into the Magazine Hall of Fame in 2020. In 2014, he was awarded the Missouri Honor Medal from the Academy of Missouri for his contributions to journalism. He has a BA from the University of Tennessee and an MA from the University of Virginia.

Based in New York, Granger represents primarily non-fiction and is obsessed with topics across an extremely broad spectrum—politics, food culture, bodily innovation in design, tech and science; fame. What binds these things is a yen for intensely original ideas and writing that pushes boundaries to a breaking bespeak.
Sarah Lazin
SENIOR Amanuensis

SENIOR Amanuensis

Sarah Lazin

Sarah Lazin began her publishing career on the editorial staff of Rolling Stone in 1971. In 1976, she established Rolling Stone Printing, the book packaging partitioning of the company, which she connected to stand for for xxx years and which created hundreds of successful titles for Rolling Rock, Men's Journal, and U.s.a. Mag. She also created book packaging divisions for Ms. Magazine, The Village Voice, Musician, Playboy, and Vibe Magazine, and created books for The Stone and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum, The Feel Music Project, and The International Center for Photography.

She is the co-founder and past president of the American Volume Producers Association, has served on the boards of the Women's Media Group, and The Association of Authors' Representatives. She has taught at publishing seminars including Rice, Radcliffe, Denver, and New York University, and has served on the staffs of the Jackson Pigsty Writers Conference and the Maui Writers Conference. She received an MA in history from New York Academy.

Based in New York, Sarah represents a range of nonfiction writers working in fields such as popular culture, biography, history, politics, journalism, memoir, parenting, health, practical nonfiction, contemporary affairs, social problems, and general reference. She accepts submissions through referral just.
Sarah Levitt
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR AGENT

Sarah Levitt

Sarah Levitt represents critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction writers. Her list includes journalists, academics, historians, scientists, and musicians, amongst others.

Levitt graduated summa cum laude every bit a Academy Honors Scholar and Founders' 24-hour interval Award recipient from New York Academy, with a BA in Classics and English literature. Prior to joining Aevitas, Levitt was equally an amanuensis at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency, where she also handled contracts and foreign rights.

Equally an Aevitas amanuensis based in New York, she is most interested in narrative nonfiction in the areas of pop science, large ideas, history, sense of humour, popular culture, memoir, and reportage, in addition to vocalism-driven literary fiction with a assuming plot and fresh, imaginative characters. She'southward excited past potent female and underrepresented voices, the strange and speculative, and projects that ignite cultural conversation.
Will Lippincott
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR AGENT

Will Lippincott

Will Lippincott has represented projects such as theNew York Times bestsellerA Colony in a Nation by Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host Chris Hayes, the national bestsellerUnfinished Business organisation past Anne-Marie Slaughter, United states Senator Mazie Hirono's celebrated memoir Eye of Fire, the acclaimed history of the Russian balletBolshoi Confidential by Princeton music historian and critic Simon Morrison, andKilling the Messenger byNew York Times bestselling author David Brock.

For 13 years Lippincott worked as a literary amanuensis and founding partner of Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. Prior to becoming an agent in 2003, Volition was publisher ofstrategy+business mag and a business development manager at the global consulting business firm Booz Allen; publisher ofThe New Democracy; and volume publishing director atThe New Yorker.

Every bit an agent based in Los Angeles, Will represents Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and focuses on journalistic narratives, politics, history, mental health, engineering, and memoir.
Jen Marshall
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR Agent

Jen Marshall

Jen Marshall has worked closely over the years with a wide range of award-winning and bestselling authors, including Margaret Atwood, P.D. James, Ayelet Waldman, Dan Brown, Mona Simpson, Chris Bohjalian, E L James, Thomas Cahill, Claire Messud, Erin Morgenstern, Joseph Ellis, and Karen Armstrong.

Marshall joined Aevitas after almost 20 years working for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouping at Penguin Random House in various roles from Director of Publicity for Anchor Books to Publicist-at-Large for the imprint. Prior to that, Jen worked every bit an contained bookseller. She brings to her piece of work every bit an agent a thorough agreement of the publishing and bookselling industries, too as deep expertise in public relations, social media, and audience-edifice. A native of northwest Connecticut, Jen graduated from Bucknell Academy with honors in English.

Marshall represents a range of fiction and nonfiction. She is most interested in books yous would recommend to your friends in a hot minute: literary fiction, commercial fiction, crime, thrillers, style, pop culture, and compelling narrative nonfiction. She divides her time between our New York part and her home in Western Massachusetts.
Penny Moore
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR AGENT

Penny Moore

Penny Moore represents standout authors such as Morris Accolade Finalist, Akemi Dawn Bowman, author of titles, Starfish andSummer Bird Blue; Beth Evans, writer/illustrator ofI Actually Didn't Think This Through; Nicki Pau Preto, author ofCrown of Feathers; Lyla Lee, writer ofThe Mindy Kim Serial; and Katie Zhao, author ofThe Dragon Warrior.

Moore graduated from the University of Georgia with a double caste in Linguistics and Japanese Language & Literature. During her time as an undergraduate, she as well studied comparative literature at top universities in Japan and Republic of korea. Penny joined Aevitas in 2018, starting in the manufacture as an assistant/associate amanuensis at FinePrint Literary Management in 2014, then joining Empire Literary as an agent two years later, where she congenital out the children'southward portion of the agency's listing.

Moore mainly represents children's literature, including picture books, middle grade, and young adult. She as well has an interest in select platform nonfiction projects that speak to younger audiences. Though she'south interested in all genres, she'south specifically seeking inventive works featuring breakout voices and compelling plot lines that will brand immature readers feel seen and heard for the start fourth dimension.
Lauren Sharp
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR AGENT

Lauren Sharp

Lauren Sharp represents award-winning journalists, historians, and academics from the New York Times, theWashington Post, the Wall Street Journal, acme universities, prominent recollect tanks, and elsewhere.

Sharp graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelors in English, and from the University of Cincinnati with a Masters in English language, Creative Writing. Prior to joining Aevitas, she worked as an agent and rights director at ICM/Sagalyn, and interned with the Ross Yoon Agency.

Precipitous is based in Washington, DC, and represents nonfiction in the areas of politics, history, current affairs, narrative nonfiction, and science.
Becky Sweren
SENIOR Amanuensis

SENIOR Agent

Becky Sweren

Becky Sweren has represented projects such as the New York Times bestseller From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein, the LA Times bestseller Barons of the Bounding main by Steven Ujifusa, the New York Times bestseller The Secret Life of the American Musical past Jack Viertel, and acclaimed narrative nonfiction such as The Play a joke on Chase past Mohammed Al Samawi.

Becky graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Knuckles University with a BA in English language and in Theater Studies. Prior to joining Aevitas, she worked at Janklow & Nesbit Associates.

She is most interested in investigative journalism, unexplored history, large ideas that claiming conventional wisdom, and vocalisation-driven memoirs that shed lite on cultures, places, or industries.
Erica Bauman
Amanuensis

AGENT

Erica Bauman

Erica Bauman represents a broad variety of authors across eye grade, young adult, and commercial adult fiction, including acclaimed YA author Andrew Auseon and Broadway performer Tiffany Haas.

Erica is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and has worked in the publishing manufacture since 2012. Prior to Aevitas, she worked at Spectrum Literary Agency.

Based in New York, Erica is about interested in commercial novels that feature an exciting premise and lyrical, atmospheric writing; imaginative, genre-blending tales; speculative worlds filled with haunting, quietly wondrous magic; fresh retellings of mythology, ballet, opera, and archetype literature; sharply funny rom-coms; graphic novels for all ages; fearless storytellers that tackle big ideas and contemporary problems; and working with and supporting marginalized authors and stories that represent the wide range of humanity.
Karen Brailsford
AGENT

AGENT

Karen Brailsford

Karen spent more than ii decades covering arts and civilisation, Hollywood, fashion, beauty and human interest as a staff writer and editor with Newsweek, Elle, In Touch and E! Entertainment. Her writing has likewise appeared in The New York Times Volume Review, Interview, Black Enterprise and other publications.

A native New Yorker, she is a graduate of The Brearley School and Yale where she earned a B.A. in English language literature. Karen has been a licensed spiritual therapist with the Agape International Spiritual Center since 2009 and is the author of Sacred Landscapes of the Soul: Aligning with the Divine Wherever You Are(Wyatt-MacKenzie | 2020).

Karen is based in Los Angeles and is particularly interested in arts and entertainment, memoir, biography, health and wellness, spirituality and works of non-fiction that inspire and shine a low-cal on contemporary weather condition.
Justin Brouckaert
Amanuensis

Amanuensis

Justin Brouckaert

Justin Brouckaert represents literary novelists and brusque story writers, honor-winning journalists, renowned health professionals, and prominent academics.

Justin holds an English language degree from Saginaw Valley State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of South Carolina, where he was a James Dickey Young man in Fiction and editor-in-chief of the internationally distributed literary periodical Yemassee. He joined Aevitas in 2017 after more than five years working in journalism and independent publishing.

Based in Detroit, Justin is actively seeking character-driven and formally inventive literary fiction and memoir, as well as narrative nonfiction in the areas of sports, internet culture, politics and electric current affairs, parenting, travel, and history. Regardless of genre, he is nearly passionate about projects that shine a light on underserved and overlooked communities and/or highlight unique relationships between people and places. He is peculiarly interested in pairing with debut authors and helping them grow their careers.
Chris Bucci
Amanuensis

Amanuensis

Chris Bucci

Chris Bucci represents bestselling and laurels-winning fiction and non-fiction authors including, Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid; Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? by Timothy Caulfield; and The War Widow by Tara Moss.

Chris began his career at the University of Toronto Printing as an acquisitions editor in the social sciences. He joined HarperCollins Canada in 2003 as a not-fiction editor and and so moved to McClelland & Stewart. In 2008 he joined The McDermid Bureau as a literary amanuensis and afterward bought the bureau, along with Martha Webb. In 2017 they merged with the Cooke Agency to class CookeMcDermid where Chris was Proprietor and Literary Agent earlier coming to Aevitas in 2020.

Chris represents a broad range of both fiction and not-fiction as an Aevitas agent based in the NY Metropolitan surface area. He aims to work with some of the culture's all-time writers, thinkers and experts—authors whose work helps us to interpret and sympathize our times equally well as our future.
Maggie Cooper
Amanuensis

AGENT

Maggie Cooper

Maggie Cooper came to Aevitas in 2018 from the world of of minor presses, academic publishing, and literary journals. She holds a degree in English language from Yale Academy, attended the Blaring Writers Workshop, and earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Due north Carolina at Greensboro, where she served every bit an editor for TheGreensboro Review.

Based in Boston, Maggie is actively seeking imaginative, genre-bending literary fiction; capacious historical novels; beautifully told queer stories; and smart, feminist romance. Her other loves include unclassifiable book projects, food and cookbooks, and work by writers traditionally underrepresented in mainstream publishing.
Jon Michael Darga
Agent

Agent

Jon Michael Darga

Jon Michael Darga represents titles across a diverse range of genres, including, most recently, the biography Vivian Maier Adult by Ann Marks, the cookbook Cookies: The New Classics by Jesse Szewczyk (named a All-time Cookbook of 2021 by the New York Times), the photography volume Portrait of an Creative person past Hugo Huerta Marin, and the New York Times bestselling oral history of "Gray'due south Anatomy" How to Relieve a Life past Lynette Rice.

Darga graduated from the Academy of Michigan with Honors with a BA in English language and Artistic Writing, and later on attended the Columbia Academy publishing program. Earlier coming to Aevitas, he was an editor at Crown, a partition within Penguin Random House, where he worked on several bestsellers and honour winners.

Darga represents both not-fiction and fiction every bit an Aevitas amanuensis based in Michigan. He is almost interested in voice-driven pop culture writing, non-fiction histories that re-cast the narrative by emphasizing unexpected or unheard voices, and both developed and young adult commercial fiction that features diverse casts and new stories. He is not looking for genre fiction like political/crime thrillers, fantasy/sci-fi, or not-fiction in the self-help/how-to/business categories.
Trevor Dolby
AGENT ACM Great britain

Agent ACM Great britain

Trevor Dolby

Trevor Dolby has published scores of bestselling books during his thirty-five yr career in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland non-fiction publishing. He was the UK publisher of multi-one thousand thousand selling Dave Pelzer'sA Child Called Information technology trilogy, world-renowned historian James Holland, and the start Great britain internet bestselling phenomenon The Darwin Awards. He created the international bestselling, Pythons on the Pythons and U2 on U2. He was ane of the outset publishers to constitute the celebrity memoir, editing David Essex, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Terri Hatcher, Colin Montgomery, Martin Kemp, Peter Kay, Phil Collins and many more than. Every bit Publisher and Managing Director of HarperCollins Amusement partition, he managed the worldwide publishing rights to J.R.R. Tolkien, and the UK and commonwealth rights to The Simpsons, Agatha Christie and C.South. Lewis. In 2007 Trevor launched 'Preface' as an imprint of Random House, where he published many bestselling authors including GQ Editor Dylan Jones, historian Henry Hemming, military historian Peter Caddick-Adams, and many bestselling cook books. He established a high-end contract business for Penguin Random House creating illustrated books for international brands including Patek Philippe, Pinewood Studios, Soho House, The Groucho Club, Marbella Order and Davidoff. He remains the publisher of Lady Fiona Carnarvon and books associated with 'Highclere, The Real Downton Abbey'.

He won the 'Imprint and Editor of the year' at the 2003 British Volume Awards; and was a Non-Executive Director of Maverick Idiot box. He has spoken widely on the relationship between film, Idiot box and books including at MIPCOM in Cannes. In 2010 he delivered the almanac Whitcombe lecture and for ten years wrote a regular column for BookBrunch, the publishing industry daily. He is a Not-Executive Director of the Chalke Valley History Festival.

Trevor is looking for pop science with a clear relevance to everyday life, narrative history, military history, humor, biography, popular civilization, natural history and bang-up memoirs by passionate people whose lives have been well lived.
Max Edwards
Amanuensis ACM United kingdom

AGENT ACM UK

Max Edwards

Max Edwards represents both non-fiction, working with a number of journalists, thinkers and academics writing for a trade audience, and developed fiction, predominantly commercial, SFF and offense novelists. Non-fiction he represents include Sunday Times Eye East Correspondent Louise Callaghan for Father of Lions; Suzanne Wrack, The Guardian's Women's Football game Contributor for A Woman's Game: The History of Women'due south Football; palaeontologist Dr David Hone for The Mod Age of Dinosaurs; and Jay Owen's Planet of Grit: How We Alive in a Changing Earth. Fiction includes Aliya Whiteley's Clarke Award shortlisted The Loosening Skin, crime novels from Guy Morpuss and fantasy from Juliet E. McKenna.

Max graduated from Kings College, London with a degree in English language. He worked as a bookseller at Blackwell's in Oxford and for Sports Interactive, developers of the computer game Football Manager, before moving into publishing. He worked at a number of literary agencies including United Agents and Rogers, Coleridge and White, and set up-upwardly Apple tree Tree Literary in 2019 before joining ACM United kingdom.

In fiction, Max is looking for commercial and genre novels, and is a massive fan of novels that mix genres in a unique manner. He'due south a sucker for high concepts, smart plots and unique characters – twists and turns, practiced (and bad) guys with depth and life. Max is besides looking for great stories that can exist told through non-fiction; either unique or surprising takes on a subject field, or something wildly original. He'd dearest to hear from academics mixing the arts and science in a new style, journalists wanting to take their writing beyond the article, sports writers with a new way of exploring what we play (particularly football/soccer), or writers with an untold history to tell.
Lori Galvin
Agent

Agent

Lori Galvin

Lori Galvin represents both developed fiction (especially women's fiction and crime fiction) and non-fiction (memoir, food writing, and cookbooks). Based in Boston, a few of her clients and their projects include Kwame Onwuachi'southward Notes from a Immature Blackness Chef (Knopf 'nineteen); Hannah Kirshner'sWater, Forest, and Wild Things (Viking '21), Cambria Brockman's Tell Me Everything (Ballantine 'nineteen), and Wanda M. Morris's All Her Trivial Secrets (Morrow, '21). A few of Galvin's client's projects have been optioned by A24 and Netflix.

Prior to joining Aevitas, Galvin was executive editor at the multimedia publisher America's Test Kitchen, where she led a team that produced dozens of landmark cookbooks. Galvin was also an editor at Houghton Mifflin, a eatery cook, and ran a bed-and-breakfast in Maine.
Karen Murgolo
AGENT

Agent

Karen Murgolo

Karen Murgolo has over 25 years of experience as an editor and amanuensis. She has edited New York Times bestselling books like Nobel Prize Winner Elizabeth Blackburn's and Elissa Epel's The Telomere Effect; Ballerina Body by Misty Copeland; Eat to Beat Disease past Dr. William Li; Enough Already by Valerie Bertinelli; and cookbooks by Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Boulud, and others. As an agent she's represented authors from accolade-winning psychologists to food writers to a Shaman.

Before coming to Aevitas, Karen was Editorial Manager, Lifestyle and Culinary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, as well every bit Editorial Director, Grand Central Life & Manner. She graduated from Wesleyan University with honors and attended the Radcliffe Publishing Program (now Columbia). She is an IACP Digital Media Gauge.

Based in New York, Karen is interested in authoritative health, wellness, science and psychology, spirituality, inspirational (or merely really fun) memoirs; original cookbooks, and narratives that illuminate a compelling subject or starting time a chat.
Nate Muscato
AGENT

AGENT

Nate Muscato

Nate Muscato graduated from Vassar College with a BA in English and Italian. Prior to joining Aevitas, he worked at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Sterling Lord Literistic and taught high schoolhouse students in Milan.

Nate is interested in fiction that plays with conventions of narrative and genre, and in nonfiction that contemplates and critiques the arts, civilisation, history, current events, and the time to come. He is based in New York.
Sara O'Keeffe
AGENT ACM UK

Agent ACM United kingdom

Sara O'Keeffe

Sara has come up to Aevitas with twenty years' experience in the world of publishing, having worked with a host of major brand names in fiction ranging from crime writer Minette Walters to bestselling women'south fiction author Elizabeth Buchan, Roman ballsy serial writer Robert Fabbri and award-winning science fiction writer Chris Beckett. She was the United kingdom editor for Kevin Kwan's international bestseller, Crazy Rich Asians along with Robert Ludlum's hugely successful Bourne serial. She caused and published the bestselling cult hit Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell which spent half-dozen weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller listing.

Sara has a particular passion for Irish gaelic writing and has previously published rising stars in Irish fiction: Eithne Shortall, Catherine Ryan Howard and Rachel Donohue. She enjoys the procedure of working with authors on their ideas, honing their craft and turning their creativity and talent into commercial success. She is passionate about storytelling, with particular interest in genre and reading group fiction. Sara enjoys working closely with writers, helping to shape and develop their work and advocating on their behalf. She has a very deep network of contacts in the publishing industry, built over twenty years of work, and seeks to apply that cognition to requite her clients the best possible publishing journey.

Read more than about Sara'south work on her website here: www.saraokeeffe.co.uk
Michael Signorelli
Amanuensis

Agent

Michael Signorelli

Michael Signorelli joined Aevitas after working every bit an editor at HarperCollins Publishers and Henry Holt & Company.

Some of his favorite projects include: the Phi Beta Kappa Science Honor-winning Archaeology from Space: How the Futurity Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak; National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biography Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous past Christopher Bonanos; the Man Booker Prize-longlisted and New York Times bestselling novel The Due north Water by Ian McGuire, which NPR called, "an audacious piece of work of historical suspense fiction"; and the forthcoming Black Skinhead: The Uneasy Alliance between Black Voters and the Democratic Political party by Brandi Collins-Dexter.

Signorelli graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in English language Literature. At Aevitas Creative Management, Michael oversees a list of literary and commercial fiction too equally nonfiction spanning nature, science, adventure, current diplomacy, sports, and cultural history.
Simon Targett
Agent ACM UK

Agent ACM UK

Simon Targett

Simon Targett has been engaged in the media and publishing industry for more than 25 years every bit a writer, editor, historian and media consultant. He is co-author of New Globe Inc: How England's Merchants Founded America And Launched The British Empire (Fiddling, Brown Usa; Atlantic Books UK) and collaborative author on two business books: The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating The Newly Affluent in China and India (Harvard Business concern Review Books) and Rocket: Eight Lessons To Secure Infinite Growth (McGraw-Colina).

An accolade-winning journalist and old Acquaintance Editor of the Financial Times, he has served equally a judge at the prestigious British Press Awards and written for a broad range of publications, including The Economist, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. He served as the first Editor-in-Chief of The Boston Consulting Group and founded Thinking Cap Communications, a strategic thought leadership consultancy. Simon has a PhD from Cambridge University and lectures on journalism, PR and British and American history.

Based in London, Simon's interests stretch across a wide range of not-fiction—including business and leadership, history, journalism, current affairs, biography, sport, music, pop science, nature, travel, genealogy—equally well every bit historical fiction. The mutual factor is an accent on big ideas, swell stories, and fine writing.
Adam Moss
Artistic CONSULTANT

CREATIVE CONSULTANT

Adam Moss

Adam Moss joined Aevitas equally a Creative Consultant in 2019. Prior to Aevitas, he spent 15 years atNew York magazine and New York Media as editor-in-master. During his tenure,New York won 41 National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Twelvemonth. Prior toNew York, Moss was the editor ofThe New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2004, and subsequently oversaw the Magazine, Volume Review and Civilization and Mode sections. Moss is the founding editor ofseven Days, a weekly magazine that covered New York City arts and culture. Earlier founding7 Days,Moss spent six years atEsquire in various editorial capacities.

Based in New York, Moss has an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from his alma mater Oberlin College, and the Missouri Accolade Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, which he was awarded in 2012. He was three times named Editor of the Year byAdvertising Age—twice for his work atNew York and once for his piece of work atThe New York Times Magazine. He was elected to the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2019.
Erin Files
DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN RIGHTS

Director OF Strange RIGHTS

Erin Files

Erin Files joined Aevitas Creative Direction in 2018. As Director of Foreign Rights, she works alongside our network of co-agents to handle all UK and translation rights for our titles, overseeing all aspects of our clients' international publication, from submission and negotiation through publication and beyond. She participates in all the major volume fairs in London, Frankfurt and Bologna. Files is a fellow member of the Association of American Literary Agents.

She began her publishing career with various internships at both agencies and publishers including Little Tiger Printing in London, W.Westward. Norton and Writers House—where she first encountered the world of subsidiary rights.

Based in New York, Files graduated from New York Academy with a BA in English language. Born in Zurich, Switzerland just raised in Texas, she considers Dallas her hometown.
Kate Mack
Managing director OF OPERATIONS AND PERSONNEL/Amanuensis

Managing director OF OPERATIONS AND PERSONNEL/Amanuensis

Kate Mack

Kate Mack has worked with authors such as creative person Kate Schelter, illustrator Joana Avillez, New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly, and the Women's March.

Mack graduated from New York University'due south Gallatin Schoolhouse of Individualized Report.

Mack represents nonfiction equally an Aevitas agent based in New York. She is virtually interested in cultural history, way, music, illustrated books for adults, strong female voices, and stories that give a voice to a person or community that's historically been silenced or ostracized.
Allison Warren
VP OF Development, Pic & TV

VP OF DEVELOPMENT, FILM & TV

Allison Warren

Allison Warren joined Aevitas Creative Management in December 2016. As VP of Evolution in the agency'south film and idiot box department, Warren manages the agency's relationship with acclaimed management and production company Bearding Content, and oversees picture and television activities.

Previously, Warren served equally Creative Executive at Lava Bear Films, the LA-based moving picture product and financing visitor founded by David Linde (which produced the Oscar-nominated film Arrival, directed past Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, among others), afterwards working in film development at Play tricks 2000, a division of Twentieth Century Pull a fast one on specializing in volume-to-moving-picture show adaptations, and New Line Cinema.

Based in New York, Warren received a BS in Boob tube, Radio, and Moving picture from the S.I. Newhouse Schoolhouse of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and is originally from Philadelphia.
Catharine Potent
Acquaintance AGENT

ASSOCIATE Amanuensis

Catharine Strong

Catharine Strong graduated summa cum laude from Colgate University with a BA in English Literature and a modest in Film and Media Studies. She joined Aevitas in 2018 later interning at Akashic Books and the literary agency Aragi, Inc. A built-in and raised Brooklynite, Catharine is based in New York.
Jack Haug
EDITORIAL Banana

EDITORIAL Banana

Jack Haug

Jack Haug studied English and history at Vassar College. Since so he has worked for a used bookstore, attended the Columbia Publishing Class, and completed an internship at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He joined Aevitas in 2020.

Jack is interested in history, economic science, politics, and scientific discipline. He is based in New York.
Sydney James
EDITORIAL & Agent'S Banana

EDITORIAL & Amanuensis'S ASSISTANT

Sydney James

Sydney James studied English language Literature at the University of Roehampton in London, she then completed her masters degree at the University Leeds and graduated with distinction. Before joining Aevitas in 2020, Sydney worked at a literary festival. Born in Bailiwick of jersey, Aqueduct Islands, Sydney moved to London to written report and has stayed in the Great britain since.
Elena Steiert
EDITORIAL Assistant

EDITORIAL Banana

Elena Steiert

Elena Steiert graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied Comparative Literature and Classics. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she interned with Artslandia Publishing before joining Aevitas.

Elena is based in New York and enjoys stories with distinct voices and emotional urgency. She is interested in character-driven fiction of all kinds, from literary to fantasy and YA, also as narrative nonfiction and poesy.
Catherine Bai
OPERATIONS & FOREIGN RIGHTS ASSISTANT

OPERATIONS & Foreign RIGHTS Banana

Catherine Bai

Catherine Bai joined Aevitas in 2022. She previously worked equally an amanuensis's assistant at WME and interned for Writers House, Beacon Press, and Ploughshares. She graduated from Brown University, where she studied literary arts and applied math.

Based in the New York part, she was raised in Florida.
Paula Breen
CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

Paula Breen

Paula Breen is a former publishing executive with over thirty years of experience in negotiating and deal-making. Before condign an independent publishing consultant in 2003, she was Vice President and Managing director of Contracts for Random House. Prior to that, she worked in the contracts section of both Crown Publishers and Simon & Schuster.
Kasey Poserina
CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

Kasey Poserina

Kasey Poserina previously worked at Simon & Schuster as a Contracts Director. Prior to working at Simon & Schuster, Kasey was the Associate Director of Business organisation Diplomacy at a major New York literary agency, where she worked with over 10 literary agents reviewing and negotiating book publishing agreements, audio publishing agreements, publishing agreements with British and foreign linguistic communication publishers, get-go serial licenses, film agreements, and author-writer collaboration agreements.