Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Tamar Rydzinski

Tamar Rydzinski worked at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates prior to joining the Laura Dail Literary Agency, where she is now vice president. She graduated from Yeshiva University in 2003 with a major in literature and a minor in business.  Tamar is not interested in prescriptive or practical non-fiction, humor, coffee table books or children’s books […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Suzie Townsend

Here is Suzie Townsend’s official bio from the Fine Print Literary site: Suzie is actively looking for fiction and non-fiction: specifically Middle Grade and YA novels (all subgenres, but particularly literary projects), adult romance (historical and paranormal), and fantasy (urban fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, epic fantasy). Recent sales include Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers (Tor, […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Stephen Barr

Stephen Barr is an agent with Writers House, and holy crap does he like books – unexpected memoirs with itchy voices, narrative non-fiction that tackles hard-to-tackle issues, wry and rarely paranormal YA, laugh-until-you-squirt-milk-out-of-your-nose middle grade, sweet and wacky (but still logical!) picture books from author/illustrators, and rarest of all, fiction that rewards the reader line-by-line […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Sarah LaPolla

Sarah LaPolla is an associate agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. She studied creative writing at Ithaca College, and has an MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School. She joined Curtis Brown, Ltd. in 2008 as the assistant to the foreign rights department, and became an associate agent in 2010.  Sarah represents both adult and […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Sarah Davies

Sarah Davies was a children’s publisher in London for more than 25 years before moving to the USA in 2007 to launch the Greenhouse Literary Agency. Based in Washington DC and London, the Greenhouse exclusively represents authors of children’s and YA fiction and is not only transatlantic (Sarah personally represents both US and UK authors […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Sara Crowe

Sara Crowe is an agent at Harvey Klinger, Inc. where she represents adult fiction and nonfiction and children’s fiction. After attending the Radcliffe Publishing Course, she started her career at The Wylie Agency in New York, and after two years, moved to their London office as a foreign rights agent. At Trident Media Group in New […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Robert Astle

Robert Astle worked for 25 years in professional theater in Canada, and toured his acclaimed one-man-shows around the globe. He taught for nine years in the playwrights’ unit at the National Theatre School of Canada, (Canada’s Julliard) and was an adjunct professor in the Theatre Department of Concordia University. He has written and published extensively […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Rena Rossner

Rena Rossner  is a literary and foreign rights agent at The Deborah Harris Agency. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars Program, where she double-majored in poetry and non-fiction writing. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin and holds an MA in History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She worked at bookstores […]

Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Reiko Davis

Before joining DeFiore in early 2016, Reiko Davis was an associate agent at Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency for four years. She grew up in Kansas City, received her BA in Comparative Literature and Art History from Brown University, and is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course. Reiko’s interests are varied, but she is particularly […]