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David Kuhn
CO-CEO

CO-CEO

David Kuhn

David Kuhn has represented Amy Schumer'southward #1New York Times bestsellerThe Daughter with the Lower Back Tattoo,Liaquat Ahamed's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestsellerLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, as well as 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; erstwhileNew Yorker Drawing Editor Bob Mankoff; performance artist Marina Abramovic; painter David Salle; legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw; journalist 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 receiver producer Henry Louis Gates Jr.; fashion 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; actor-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's March, andThe Wall Street Journal.

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

Kuhn, based in New York, represents nonfiction books that will educate, entertain, and enlighten in the areas of memoir, current events, history, politics, culture, style, food, music, and amusement.
Todd Shuster
CO-CEO

CO-CEO

Todd Shuster

Todd Shuster represents such authors equally James S. 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 foreign correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman; and Deval L. Patrick, old Governor of Massachusetts. Todd too works with numerous prestigious institutions including The Boston Consulting Grouping, The Boston Globe, and Jeter Publishing, Derek Jeter's eponymous banner at Simon & Schuster. Films Todd has helped shepherd to the large screen include Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon;Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp; and The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith.

Following college at Yale and police force schoolhouse at Northeastern University, Shuster practiced publishing and entertainment law at the constabulary firms of Palmer & Dodge and Ropes & Grayness. He founded the literary agency Zachary Shuster Harmsworth which recently merged with Kuhn Projects to course Aevitas.

Based in New York, Shuster represents both fiction and nonfiction. His nonfiction list primarily focuses on current affairs, 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 #1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller and New York Times bestsellerBreakthrough: Secrets of America's Fastest Growing Companies past Keith McFarland; Amanda Ripley'southward New York Times bestsellerThe Smartest Kids in the World—And How They Got That Style; the thrilling Southern Gothic mystery The Gates of Evangeline past Hester Young; and Michelle Hoover'due south acclaimed literary novel Bottomland.

Born in London, Harmsworth was educated in England before graduating magna cum laude from Dark-brown University 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, history and science. For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery and criminal offence, thriller, suspense and horror, and historical novels.
Toby Mundy
CEO ACM UK

CEO ACM Great britain

Toby Mundy

Toby Mundy represented the contempo bestsellersDamaged Goods, Oliver Shah's biography of Philip Green;The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart;Red River Girl by Joanna Jolly,Who Can Yous Trust? past Rachel Botsman; andMaestra by Lisa Hilton. His clients include Tobias Buck, Stephen Bush, Ruth Brandon, James Crabtree, Michael Dine, Daniel Finkelstein, Charles Handy, Tiffany Jenkins, Andrew Smashing, 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 also represents organisations such asThe How to: Academy;Stylist mag; New Scientist,theTLSand The Browser.com.

Before becoming a literary agent, Toby founded Atlantic Books Limited, where he served equally 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 'Imprint of the Year' (2005, 2008) and 'Independent 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; chair of trustees of Wimbledon BookFest, a registered charity; chair of the advisory board of The Sunday Times — Audible Brusque Story Award; and a patron of the Great britain's National Festival of the Humanities, which is run by the University of London'due south School of Avant-garde Study. He was a non-executive director of Prospect Publishing Express for 10 years, where he was also a contributing editor and editorial board member. He has also been an active advisory board member of, the Legatum Institute and Demos think tanks, and has appeared regularly on the Evening Standard'south list of London'due south 1,000 Most Influential People. In 2016, he appeared in Esquire magazine'south list of Britain'due south 100 'Most Connected' men.

He is looking for gripping narrative not-fiction, and well written, heed-expanding works in the areas of history, biography, memoir, current affairs, sport, popular civilization and pop science. He also represents a modest 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 Award winner The Memory Palace and the forthcoming The Wonderling; Maya Soetoro-Ng'south Ladder to the Moon; Eva Longoria's Eva'south Kitchen; Thomas P.M. Barnett's The Pentagon's 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 becoming an editor at a division of HarperCollins. She joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth equally 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 good-driven works, memoir, electric current diplomacy, pop culture, besides as literary fiction and children'southward 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 amidst others.

Nolan has worked for over 20-5 years in the publishing industry, both as a literary agent and equally a digital pioneer, having helped launch Barnes & Noble's e-volume publishing program in 2001. Earlier joining Aevitas, Nolan was the head of volume publishing division for Epitome Talent Bureau.

Based in New York, Nolan represents platform-driven narrative nonfiction in the areas of celebrity, music, investigative journalism, women's issues, alternative health, and lifestyle. She is passionate virtually cookbooks and food narrative informed by politics or scientific discipline. She is seeking challenging ideas, incisive writing that asks "large" questions, and artists who are successful in 1 medium just whose talents and passion translate into narrative.
Janet Silver
SENIOR PARTNER

SENIOR PARTNER

Janet Argent

Janet Argent represents a roster of bestselling and laurels-winning authors of literary fiction, artistic nonfiction, and poetry. Her listing of acclaimed clients includes Cheryl Strayed, author of the international bestsellers Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things; Anthony Marra, author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and the story collection The Tsar of Dearest and Techno; Monique Truong, winner of the Asian American Literary Accolade 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 poetry collection Cannibal and the forthcoming How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir.

Janet brings in-depth knowledge of the publishing manufacture and all-encompassing editorial experience to her work as 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 Piece of work Heart and is on the advisory board of Ploughshares magazine. She was featured in the Poets and Writers article "Agents as Editors."
Bridget Wagner Matzie
PARTNER

PARTNER

Bridget Wagner Matzie

Bridget Wagner Matzie has represented projects such equally the #1New York Times bestsellerShattered by Jon Allen and Amie Parnes, the national bestsellerThe Case for Impeachment by Allan Lichtman, theNew York Times bestsellerThe Political party Is Over by Mike Lofgren, the acclaimed novelThe Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur, likewise as Smithsonian scientist Nick Pyenson'due south Spying on Whales, and Emory Professor Ruby Lal'southward Empress, among others.

Matzie graduated from Colgate University with a BA in English and Writing. She attended the Columbia Academy publishing plan and subsequently 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 House India. Matzie represents nonfiction and commercial fiction as an Aevitas amanuensis based in Washington, DC., whereWashingtonian Magazine listed her as one of DC's meridian book agents. She is most interested in strong original ideas, new and international voices, big-think topics and books that challenge readers and create word.
Rick Richter
PARTNER

PARTNER

Rick Richter

Rick Richter represents or (co-represents) numerous recent New York Times bestselling authors in both the developed and children's markets, including the estate of Albert Einstein for the #1 bestselling series Max Einstein, Rolling Stone journalist 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, 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's Executive Committee equally President, Children's Book Division and President of Sales and Distribution, and brings a wide range of publishing and media expertise to his role at Aevitas. His areas of interest include cocky-assist, pop culture, memoir, history, thriller, true criminal offense, political and social issues, narrative food writing, and organized religion. He has deep experience and interest in children's books, having overseen two of the nation'south top children's publishers: Simon & Schuster and Candlewick Printing.
Jane von Mehren
PARTNER

PARTNER

Jane von Mehren

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

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

Working out of Aevitas's New York office, von Mehren is interested in narratives in the areas of business, history, memoir, pop civilization and science, books that assistance united states live our best lives, literary, book gild, and historical fiction.
Sarah Bowlin
SENIOR Agent

SENIOR Amanuensis

Sarah Bowlin

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

Bowlin has a BA in American Literature from New York University. Originally from the S, she got her showtime in publishing at Riverhead Books and was near recently a senior editor at Henry Holt & Visitor.

Equally an Aevitas agent based in Los Angeles, she is focused on assuming, diverse voices in fiction and nonfiction. She'south 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's also interested in food history, vino, and trip the light fantastic.
Adriana Domínguez
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR AGENT

Adriana Domínguez

Adriana Dominguez represents award-winning illustrators including John Parra, a New York Times All-time Illustrator and recipient of iii Pura Belpré Honors, Kirkus Prize finalist Jacqueline Alcántara, and Orbis Pictus Honor recipient Juliet Menéndez. Her author listing includes NAACP Image Honor winner Katheryn Russell Brownish, Pura Belpré Laurels recipient Angela Cervantes and Emmy Laurels-winning announcer 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 sectionalization 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 diverse betoken of view.

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

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David Granger
SENIOR Amanuensis

SENIOR AGENT

David Granger

Granger takes on projects with the potential to go out a mark. He, along with Todd Shuster, worked with former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe on his #ane New York Times bestseller, The Threat. More recently, he and Laura Nolan represented Hunter Biden on his memoir, Beautiful Things , which debuted at #iv on the NYT listing. Granger is especially proud of having worked with Julie Yip-Williams to bring her The Unwinding of the Miracle (a #vi NYT bestseller) into the earth. It is currently beingness adapted for the screen. He has also helped Senator Jeff Bit, business organization legend Arthur Bare, and young activists David and Lauren Hogg with bestsellers that shaped the national conversation.

Granger was the editor-in-chief 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 beyond an extremely wide spectrum—politics, nutrient culture, actual innovation in design, tech and scientific discipline; fame. What binds these things is a yen for intensely original ideas and writing that pushes boundaries to a breaking point.
Sarah Lazin
SENIOR AGENT

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 Press, the volume packaging division of the company, which she continued to represent for thirty years and which created hundreds of successful titles for Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, and U.s. Magazine. She as well created book packaging divisions for Ms. Mag, The Village Vocalism, Musician, Playboy, and Vibe Mag, and created books for The Rock and Curlicue Hall of Fame + Museum, The Experience Music Project, and The International Center for Photography.

She is the co-founder and past president of the American Volume Producers Clan, 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 Hole Writers Conference and the Maui Writers Conference. She received an MA in history from New York University.

Based in New York, Sarah represents a range of nonfiction writers working in fields such as popular civilisation, biography, history, politics, journalism, memoir, parenting, health, practical nonfiction, contemporary affairs, social issues, and general reference. She accepts submissions through referral simply.
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, among others.

Levitt graduated summa cum laude as a University Honors Scholar and Founders' Mean solar day Honor recipient from New York University, with a BA in Classics and English literature. Prior to joining Aevitas, Levitt was as an agent at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency, where she as well handled contracts and foreign rights.

As an Aevitas agent based in New York, she is well-nigh interested in narrative nonfiction in the areas of popular science, big ideas, history, sense of humor, pop culture, memoir, and reportage, in addition to voice-driven literary fiction with a bold plot and fresh, imaginative characters. She'south excited by strong female and underrepresented voices, the strange and speculative, and projects that ignite cultural chat.
Will Lippincott
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR Agent

Will Lippincott

Will Lippincott has represented projects such equally theNew York Times bestsellerA Colony in a Nation past Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host Chris Hayes, the national bestsellerUnfinished Concern past Anne-Marie Slaughter, United States Senator Mazie Hirono's celebrated memoir Heart 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 writer David Brock.

For thirteen years Lippincott worked as a literary agent and founding partner of Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. Prior to becoming an agent in 2003, Will was publisher ofstrategy+business concern mag and a business development managing director at the global consulting house Booz Allen; publisher ofThe New Republic; and book publishing managing director atThe New Yorker.

As an agent based in Los Angeles, Will represents Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and focuses on journalistic narratives, politics, history, mental wellness, technology, 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 Fifty James, Thomas Cahill, Claire Messud, Erin Morgenstern, Joseph Ellis, and Karen Armstrong.

Marshall joined Aevitas after nigh xx years working for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Penguin Random Firm in various roles from Director of Publicity for Anchor Books to Publicist-at-Big for the banner. Prior to that, Jen worked as an contained bookseller. She brings to her work every bit an agent a thorough understanding of the publishing and bookselling industries, as well as deep expertise in public relations, social media, and audience-edifice. A native of northwest Connecticut, Jen graduated from Bucknell University with honors in English.

Marshall represents a range of fiction and nonfiction. She is most interested in books you lot would recommend to your friends in a hot minute: literary fiction, commercial fiction, crime, thrillers, fashion, popular culture, and compelling narrative nonfiction. She divides her fourth dimension betwixt our New York office and her dwelling in Western Massachusetts.
Penny Moore
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR AGENT

Penny Moore

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

Moore graduated from the Academy of Georgia with a double degree in Linguistics and Japanese Linguistic communication & Literature. During her time as an undergraduate, she also studied comparative literature at top universities in Nippon and South Korea. Penny joined Aevitas in 2018, starting in the industry every bit an banana/associate agent at FinePrint Literary Management in 2014, then joining Empire Literary equally an amanuensis two years later, where she congenital out the children's portion of the bureau'south list.

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

SENIOR Agent

Lauren Sharp

Lauren Sharp represents accolade-winning journalists, historians, and academics from the New York Times, theWashington Mail, the Wall Street Journal, height universities, prominent think tanks, and elsewhere.

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

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

SENIOR AGENT

Becky Sweren

Becky Sweren has represented projects such as the New York Times bestseller From the Corner of the Oval past Beck Dorey-Stein, the LA Times bestseller Barons of the Sea by Steven Ujifusa, the New York Times bestseller The Hush-hush Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel, and acclaimed narrative nonfiction such as The Flim-flam Chase by Mohammed Al Samawi.

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

She is almost interested in investigative journalism, unexplored history, big ideas that challenge conventional wisdom, and voice-driven memoirs that shed light on cultures, places, or industries.
Erica Bauman
Agent

Amanuensis

Erica Bauman

Erica Bauman represents a wide variety of authors across middle course, 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 most interested in commercial novels that characteristic 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 classic literature; sharply funny rom-coms; graphic novels for all ages; fearless storytellers that tackle big ideas and contemporary issues; and working with and supporting marginalized authors and stories that stand for the wide range of humanity.
Karen Brailsford
AGENT

Agent

Karen Brailsford

Karen spent more than than two decades roofing arts and civilization, Hollywood, fashion, beauty and human being interest every bit a staff writer and editor with Newsweek, Elle, In Bear upon and Eastward! Entertainment. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Book 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 literature. Karen has been a licensed spiritual therapist with the Afraid International Spiritual Middle 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 especially interested in arts and entertainment, memoir, biography, health and wellness, spirituality and works of not-fiction that inspire and smoothen a lite on contemporary weather condition.
Justin Brouckaert
AGENT

Amanuensis

Justin Brouckaert

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

Justin holds an English language caste from Saginaw Valley Land Academy 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 journal Yemassee. He joined Aevitas in 2017 after more than five years working in journalism and contained publishing.

Based in Detroit, Justin is actively seeking grapheme-driven and formally inventive literary fiction and memoir, every bit well as narrative nonfiction in the areas of sports, cyberspace culture, politics and electric current affairs, parenting, travel, and history. Regardless of genre, he is most passionate most projects that smooth a lite on underserved and overlooked communities and/or highlight unique relationships between people and places. He is especially interested in pairing with debut authors and helping them grow their careers.
Chris Bucci
AGENT

AGENT

Chris Bucci

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

Chris began his career at the University of Toronto Press as an acquisitions editor in the social sciences. He joined HarperCollins Canada in 2003 as a not-fiction editor and then moved to McClelland & Stewart. In 2008 he joined The McDermid Agency as a literary agent and later bought the bureau, along with Martha Webb. In 2017 they merged with the Cooke Agency to form CookeMcDermid where Chris was Proprietor and Literary Amanuensis before coming to Aevitas in 2020.

Chris represents a broad range of both fiction and not-fiction equally an Aevitas agent based in the NY Metropolitan area. He aims to work with some of the civilization'due south best writers, thinkers and experts—authors whose work helps us to interpret and understand our times as well as our hereafter.
Maggie Cooper
AGENT

AGENT

Maggie Cooper

Maggie Cooper came to Aevitas in 2018 from the world of of small-scale presses, academic publishing, and literary journals. She holds a degree in English from Yale University, attended the Blaring Writers Workshop, and earned her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as an editor for TheGreensboro Review.

Based in Boston, Maggie is actively seeking imaginative, genre-angle 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 beyond a diverse range of genres, including, most recently, the biography Vivian Maier Developed 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 book Portrait of an Artist past Hugo Huerta Marin, and the New York Times bestselling oral history of "Grey's Anatomy" How to Save a Life by Lynette Rice.

Darga graduated from the University of Michigan with Honors with a BA in English language and Creative Writing, and afterward attended the Columbia University publishing plan. Before coming to Aevitas, he was an editor at Crown, a division inside Penguin Random House, where he worked on several bestsellers and award winners.

Darga represents both non-fiction and fiction equally an Aevitas agent based in Michigan. He is most interested in voice-driven popular culture writing, non-fiction histories that re-bandage the narrative by emphasizing unexpected or unheard voices, and both adult and young developed commercial fiction that features various casts and new stories. He is not looking for genre fiction like political/crime thrillers, fantasy/sci-fi, or non-fiction in the self-assist/how-to/business categories.
Trevor Dolby
AGENT ACM UK

Agent ACM United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

Trevor Dolby

Trevor Dolby has published scores of bestselling books during his thirty-five year career in UK non-fiction publishing. He was the U.k. publisher of multi-million selling Dave Pelzer'sA Child Called It trilogy, world-renowned historian James Kingdom of the netherlands, and the first UK internet bestselling phenomenon The Darwin Awards. He created the international bestselling, Pythons on the Pythons and U2 on U2. He was one of the first publishers to establish the celebrity memoir, editing David Essex, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Terri Hatcher, Colin Montgomery, Martin Kemp, Peter Kay, Phil Collins and many more. Equally Publisher and Managing Director of HarperCollins Amusement sectionalization, he managed the worldwide publishing rights to J.R.R. Tolkien, and the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and republic rights to The Simpsons, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis. In 2007 Trevor launched 'Preface' as an imprint of Random Firm, where he published many bestselling authors including GQ Editor Dylan Jones, historian Henry Hemming, armed services historian Peter Caddick-Adams, and many bestselling melt books. He established a high-terminate contract business for Penguin Random House creating illustrated books for international brands including Patek Philippe, Pinewood Studios, Soho House, The Groucho Club, Marbella Social club 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 twelvemonth' at the 2003 British Book Awards; and was a Not-Executive Director of Maverick Television. He has spoken widely on the relationship betwixt film, TV and books including at MIPCOM in Cannes. In 2010 he delivered the annual Whitcombe lecture and for ten years wrote a regular column for BookBrunch, the publishing industry daily. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Chalke Valley History Festival.

Trevor is looking for pop science with a clear relevance to everyday life, narrative history, war machine history, humour, biography, popular culture, natural history and great memoirs by passionate people whose lives have been well lived.
Max Edwards
AGENT ACM Uk

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 adult fiction, predominantly commercial, SFF and law-breaking novelists. Not-fiction he represents include Lord's day Times Middle East Correspondent Louise Callaghan for Father of Lions; Suzanne Wrack, The Guardian's Women'due south Football Correspondent for A Woman'south Game: The History of Women's Football; palaeontologist Dr David Strop for The Modern Age of Dinosaurs; and Jay Owen'due south Planet of Grit: How We Live in a Changing Earth. Fiction includes Aliya Whiteley'due south Clarke Laurels shortlisted The Loosening Pare, offense 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 prepare-up Apple tree Tree Literary in 2019 before joining ACM UK.

In fiction, Max is looking for commercial and genre novels, and is a massive fan of novels that mix genres in a unique way. He's a sucker for loftier concepts, smart plots and unique characters – twists and turns, adept (and bad) guys with depth and life. Max is also looking for cracking stories that tin 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 way, journalists wanting to accept their writing beyond the article, sports writers with a new mode of exploring what nosotros play (particularly football/soccer), or writers with an untold history to tell.
Lori Galvin
Amanuensis

AGENT

Lori Galvin

Lori Galvin represents both adult fiction (especially women's fiction and crime fiction) and non-fiction (memoir, nutrient writing, and cookbooks). Based in Boston, a few of her clients and their projects include Kwame Onwuachi'south Notes from a Immature Black Chef (Knopf '19); Hannah Kirshner'sWater, Wood, and Wild Things (Viking '21), Cambria Brockman's Tell Me Everything (Ballantine '19), and Wanda M. Morris's All Her Fiddling Secrets (Morrow, '21). A few of Galvin's customer's projects accept been optioned by A24 and Netflix.

Prior to joining Aevitas, Galvin was executive editor at the multimedia publisher America's Examination Kitchen, where she led a team that produced dozens of landmark cookbooks. Galvin was besides an editor at Houghton Mifflin, a restaurant 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 by Dr. William Li; Enough Already past Valerie Bertinelli; and cookbooks by Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Boulud, and others. As an agent she'due south represented authors from honor-winning psychologists to food writers to a Shaman.

Earlier coming to Aevitas, Karen was Editorial Director, Lifestyle and Culinary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, besides every bit Editorial Manager, Thou Central Life & Style. She graduated from Wesleyan University with honors and attended the Radcliffe Publishing Program (now Columbia). She is an IACP Digital Media Judge.

Based in New York, Karen is interested in authoritative health, wellness, science and psychology, spirituality, inspirational (or just actually fun) memoirs; original cookbooks, and narratives that illuminate a compelling subject or start a chat.
Nate Muscato
Amanuensis

AGENT

Nate Muscato

Nate Muscato graduated from Vassar College with a BA in English language 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, electric current events, and the hereafter. He is based in New York.
Sara O'Keeffe
AGENT ACM Great britain

Agent ACM United kingdom

Sara O'Keeffe

Sara has come up to Aevitas with twenty years' experience in the globe of publishing, having worked with a host of major make names in fiction ranging from crime writer Minette Walters to bestselling women's fiction writer Elizabeth Buchan, Roman ballsy series writer Robert Fabbri and laurels-winning scientific discipline fiction writer Chris Beckett. She was the Uk editor for Kevin Kwan's international bestseller, Crazy Rich Asians along with Robert Ludlum's hugely successful Bourne series. She acquired and published the bestselling cult hit Eleanor and Park past Rainbow Rowell which spent six weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

Sara has a item passion for Irish writing and has previously published rising stars in Irish fiction: Eithne Shortall, Catherine Ryan Howard and Rachel Donohue. She enjoys the process of working with authors on their ideas, honing their craft and turning their inventiveness and talent into commercial success. She is passionate near storytelling, with particular involvement in genre and reading grouping 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 20 years of work, and seeks to use that knowledge to give her clients the best possible publishing journey.

Read more about Sara'south work on her website here: www.saraokeeffe.co.u.k.
Michael Signorelli
AGENT

Agent

Michael Signorelli

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

Some of his favorite projects include: the Phi Beta Kappa Science Award-winning Archæology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our By 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 Northward Water past Ian McGuire, which NPR called, "an audacious work of historical suspense fiction"; and the forthcoming Black Skinhead: The Uneasy Alliance between Blackness Voters and the Democratic Party past Brandi Collins-Dexter.

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

Amanuensis ACM Britain

Simon Targett

Simon Targett has been engaged in the media and publishing industry for more than 25 years as a writer, editor, historian and media consultant. He is co-author of New World Inc: How England'due south Merchants Founded America And Launched The British Empire (Little, Dark-brown US; Atlantic Books Uk) and collaborative writer on two business organization books: The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating The Newly Affluent in Mainland china and India (Harvard Business Review Books) and Rocket: Eight Lessons To Secure Infinite Growth (McGraw-Hill).

An award-winning journalist and former Acquaintance Editor of the Financial Times, he has served as a judge at the prestigious British Printing Awards and written for a broad range of publications, including The Economist, the Washington Post and the Boston Earth. He served as the first Editor-in-Primary of The Boston Consulting Grouping 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'southward interests stretch beyond a broad range of not-fiction—including business and leadership, history, journalism, current affairs, biography, sport, music, pop science, nature, travel, genealogy—too as historical fiction. The mutual cistron is an emphasis on big ideas, swell stories, and fine writing.
Adam Moss
Artistic CONSULTANT

Creative CONSULTANT

Adam Moss

Adam Moss joined Aevitas as a Creative Consultant in 2019. Prior to Aevitas, he spent xv years atNew York mag and New York Media equally editor-in-primary. During his tenure,New York won 41 National Mag Awards, including Magazine of the Twelvemonth. Prior toNew York, Moss was the editor ofThe New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2004, and afterwards oversaw the Magazine, Volume Review and Civilisation and Manner sections. Moss is the founding editor of7 Days, a weekly magazine that covered New York City arts and culture. Earlier founding7 Days,Moss spent six years atEsquire in diverse editorial capacities.

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

DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN RIGHTS

Erin Files

Erin Files joined Aevitas Creative Management in 2018. Every bit Manager of Foreign Rights, she works alongside our network of co-agents to handle all United kingdom 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 book fairs in London, Frankfurt and Bologna. Files is a 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.West. Norton and Writers House—where she first encountered the world of subsidiary rights.

Based in New York, Files graduated from New York University with a BA in English. Born in Zurich, Switzerland but raised in Texas, she considers Dallas her hometown.
Kate Mack
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND PERSONNEL/Amanuensis

Managing director OF OPERATIONS AND PERSONNEL/Amanuensis

Kate Mack

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

Mack graduated from New York Academy's Gallatin Schoolhouse of Individualized Study.

Mack represents nonfiction equally an Aevitas agent based in New York. She is almost interested in cultural history, fashion, music, illustrated books for adults, stiff 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, FILM & TV

VP OF Evolution, FILM & TV

Allison Warren

Allison Warren joined Aevitas Creative Management in December 2016. As VP of Development in the agency's motion-picture show and television section, Warren manages the bureau'due south relationship with acclaimed management and product company Anonymous Content, and oversees film and boob tube activities.

Previously, Warren served as Creative Executive at Lava Bear Films, the LA-based film product and financing visitor founded by David Linde (which produced the Oscar-nominated film Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, among others), after working in film development at Play tricks 2000, a partitioning of Twentieth Century Trick specializing in book-to-moving picture adaptations, and New Line Cinema.

Based in New York, Warren received a BS in Boob tube, Radio, and Flick from the Due south.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and is originally from Philadelphia.
Catharine Potent
ASSOCIATE AGENT

Acquaintance Amanuensis

Catharine Potent

Catharine Strong graduated summa cum laude from Colgate University with a BA in English Literature and a pocket-sized in Film and Media Studies. She joined Aevitas in 2018 after interning at Akashic Books and the literary agency Aragi, Inc. A built-in and raised Brooklynite, Catharine is based in New York.
Shenel Ekici-Moling
FILM/Goggle box DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR

Moving picture/TV DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR

Shenel Ekici-Moling

Shenel Ekici-Moling joined Aevitas's Film and Telly department in 2018 as Department Coordinator, with supporting roles in the Business Affairs and Contracts departments. She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a BA in English and Creative Writing and was a William Haller Prize recipient and a Susan Ratner Writing Fellow. She originally hails from Istanbul, Turkey.
Jack Haug
EDITORIAL Banana

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Jack Haug

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

Jack is interested in history, economics, politics, and science. He is based in New York.
Sydney James
EDITORIAL & Amanuensis'S ASSISTANT

EDITORIAL & Amanuensis'Due south Banana

Sydney James

Sydney James studied English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London, she and so completed her masters degree at the University Leeds and graduated with distinction. Earlier joining Aevitas in 2020, Sydney worked at a literary festival. Built-in in Jersey, Channel Islands, Sydney moved to London to study and has stayed in the U.k. since.
Elena Steiert
EDITORIAL Banana

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Elena Steiert

Elena Steiert graduated summa cum laude from Washington Academy in St. Louis, where she studied Comparative Literature and Classics. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she interned with Artslandia Publishing earlier 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 poetry.
Catherine Bai
OPERATIONS & Strange RIGHTS Banana

OPERATIONS & FOREIGN RIGHTS ASSISTANT

Catherine Bai

Catherine Bai joined Aevitas in 2022. She previously worked every bit an agent's banana at WME and interned for Writers Business firm, Buoy Press, and Ploughshares. She graduated from Brown University, where she studied literary arts and applied math.

Based in the New York office, 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. Earlier becoming an independent publishing consultant in 2003, she was Vice President and Director of Contracts for Random Business firm. Prior to that, she worked in the contracts department of both Crown Publishers and Simon & Schuster.
Kasey Poserina
CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

Kasey Poserina

Kasey Poserina previously worked at Simon & Schuster every bit a Contracts Director. Prior to working at Simon & Schuster, Kasey was the Associate Director of Business Affairs at a major New York literary agency, where she worked with over ten literary agents reviewing and negotiating book publishing agreements, audio publishing agreements, publishing agreements with British and strange linguistic communication publishers, first series licenses, film agreements, and author-author collaboration agreements.