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David Kuhn
CO-CEO

CO-CEO

David Kuhn

David Kuhn has represented Amy Schumer'due south #1New York Times bestsellerThe Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo,Liaquat Ahamed's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestsellerLords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, too as books byNew York Times columnist Charles Blow; Pulitzer Prize-winningWashington Post critic Robin Givhan; comedian-author-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; formerNew Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff; functioning artist Marina Abramovic; painter David Salle; legal scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw; announcer Charlayne Hunter-Gault;Ms.magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin; opera vocaliser Jessye Norman; model/activist Emily Ratajkowski; music producer and DJ Mark Ronson; lawyer and journalist Steven Brill; scholar and television set 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; player-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'due south 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 Manager atThe New Yorker(where he also edited the "Talk of the Town" and "Shout & Murmurs" pages as well as a dozen of the magazine's non-fiction Special Issues), and Editor in Chief atBrill's Content.

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

CO-CEO

Todd Shuster

Todd Shuster represents such authors every bit James Due 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 foreign correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman; and Deval 50. Patrick, one-time Governor of Massachusetts. Todd also works with numerous prestigious institutions including The Boston Consulting Group, The Boston Globe, and Jeter Publishing, Derek Jeter'south eponymous imprint at Simon & Schuster. Films Todd has helped shepherd to the big 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 school at Northeastern University, Shuster practiced publishing and amusement law at the law 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 current affairs, politics and civil rights, wellness and health, memoir, business organization, 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'due south Fastest Growing Companies by Keith McFarland; Amanda Ripley's New York Times bestsellerThe Smartest Kids in the World—And How They Got That Way; the thrilling Southern Gothic mystery The Gates of Evangeline past Hester Young; and Michelle Hoover'southward acclaimed literary novel Bottomland.

Built-in in London, Harmsworth was educated in England earlier graduating magna cum laude from Chocolate-brown University and cum laude from Harvard Police force Schoolhouse. He was a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Bureau which merged with Kuhn Projects to grade Aevitas.

Based in Boston, Harmsworth represents serious nonfiction books on topics such as politics, psychology, culture, business organisation, history and scientific discipline. For fiction, he represents literary fiction, mystery and crime, thriller, suspense and horror, and historical novels.
Toby Mundy
CEO ACM Britain

CEO ACM UK

Toby Mundy

Toby Mundy represented the contempo bestsellersDamaged Appurtenances, Oliver Shah'southward biography of Philip Green;The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart;Red River Daughter by Joanna Jolly,Who Tin can You lot 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 Peachy, Ivan Krastev, Ian Leslie, Owen Matthews, Paul Morland, Arkady Ostrovsky, Nicolas Pelham, Leigh Phillips, Richard Five Reeves, Jonathan Rowson, Donald Sassoon, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Christian Wolmar and Emma Young. He too represents organisations such every bitThe How to: Academy;Stylist mag; New Scientist,theTLSand The Browser.com.

Earlier becoming a literary amanuensis, Toby founded Atlantic Books Limited, where he served every bit principal executive and publisher from 2000 to 2014, publishing a meaning number of number of bestsellers and prize-winning titles. He won 'Editor of the Year' and Atlantic Books also won 'Imprint of the Yr' (2005, 2008) and 'Independent Publisher of the Year' (2008) at the British Book Awards. He is likewise executive director of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, the near prestigious non-fiction book prize in the UK; chair of trustees of Wimbledon BookFest, a registered charity; chair of the informational board of The Sunday Times — Audible Short Story Accolade; and a patron of the Uk's National Festival of the Humanities, which is run by the Academy of London's School of Advanced Study. He was a non-executive director of Prospect Publishing Limited for 10 years, where he was besides a contributing editor and editorial board member. He has also been an active informational board fellow member of, the Legatum Institute and Demos think tanks, and has appeared regularly on the Evening Standard'due south list of London's 1,000 Nigh Influential People. In 2016, he appeared in Esquire magazine's list of Uk's 100 'Most Connected' men.

He is looking for gripping narrative non-fiction, and well written, heed-expanding works in the areas of history, biography, memoir, electric current affairs, sport, popular culture 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, amid them Mira Bartók, author of the bestselling and NBCC Award winner The Retentivity Palace and the forthcoming The Wonderling; Maya Soetoro-Ng's Ladder to the Moon; Eva Longoria'southward Eva'southward Kitchen; Thomas P.Yard. Barnett's The Pentagon'southward New Map; and Chris Gardner's #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 partitioning 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, electric current diplomacy, popular civilization, also 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 advocate, Danica McKellar; actor Christine Lahti; musicians Sara Bareilles, John Fogerty, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, and Martha Wainwright; Primary Chef Anita Lo; and bestselling investigative journalist Scott Carney amongst others.

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

Based in New York, Nolan represents platform-driven narrative nonfiction in the areas of celebrity, music, investigative journalism, women's problems, culling health, and lifestyle. She is passionate about cookbooks and nutrient 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 translate into narrative.
Janet Silverish
SENIOR PARTNER

SENIOR PARTNER

Janet Silver

Janet Silver represents a roster of bestselling and award-winning authors of literary fiction, artistic nonfiction, and verse. Her list of acclaimed clients includes Cheryl Strayed, author of the international bestsellers Wild and Tiny Cute Things; Anthony Marra, author 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 Nosotros Sinners; and Safiya Sinclair, award-winning author 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 extensive 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 equally Philip Roth, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tim O'Brien, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

At Aevitas, Janet represents authors whose work is notable for compelling storyIines, singular voices, and unique perspectives. She has been a trustee of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Centre and is on the advisory board of Ploughshares mag. 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 as the #1New York Times bestsellerShattered by Jon Allen and Amie Parnes, the national bestsellerThe Case for Impeachment by Allan Lichtman, theNew York Times bestsellerThe Party Is Over by Mike Lofgren, the acclaimed novelThe Private Life of Mrs. Sharma by Ratika Kapur, likewise as Smithsonian scientist Nick Pyenson's Spying on Whales, and Emory Professor Ruby Lal'south Empress, among others.

Matzie graduated from Colgate University with a BA in English and Writing. She attended the Columbia University publishing program and subsequently worked for ICM in New York and London, as an amanuensis and rights managing director at The Sagalyn Agency, and as foreign rights manager at Random House India. Matzie represents nonfiction and commercial fiction every bit an Aevitas agent based in Washington, DC., whereWashingtonian Magazine listed her equally one of DC'southward acme book agents. She is well-nigh interested in potent original ideas, new and international voices, big-remember topics and books that challenge readers and create give-and-take.
Rick Richter
PARTNER

PARTNER

Rick Richter

Rick Richter represents or (co-represents) numerous recent New York Times bestselling authors in both the adult and children's markets, including the estate of Albert Einstein for the #1 bestselling series Max Einstein, Rolling Stone announcer Andy Greene for The Part: 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 Dorsum to Happy, Grace Byers for I Am Enough, and the estate of Muhammad Ali for Condign Muhammad Ali.

Richter spent over a decade on Simon & Schuster's Executive Committee as 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 involvement include self-help, popular civilisation, memoir, history, thriller, true criminal offense, political and social issues, narrative food writing, and religion. He has deep experience and involvement in children's books, having overseen two of the nation's top children'south 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 Ascension and Fall of Dinosaurs, political economist Mauro Guillen's internationally bestselling 2030: How Today'due south Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future 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'southward Gettysburg, and Jonathan Santlofer'southward The Terminal Mona Lisa.

She holds a BA with honors from Vassar College. Before condign an agent, von Mehren was an editor and publishing executive at Houghton Mifflin, Penguin, and Random Firm, nigh recently every bit a Senior Vice President and Publisher at Random House.

Working out of Aevitas'south New York office, von Mehren is interested in narratives in the areas of business organisation, history, memoir, popular culture and science, books that help us live our all-time lives, literary, book club, and historical fiction.
Sarah Bowlin
SENIOR Amanuensis

SENIOR Amanuensis

Sarah Bowlin

Sarah Bowlin joined Aevitas in early 2017 later on 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 Book Accolade-nominated The End past Salvatore Scibona; the acclaimed novels Marlena by Julie Buntin and Bye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong; and works by the honour-winning novelist, Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

Bowlin has a BA in American Literature from New York University. Originally from the South, she got her kickoff in publishing at Riverhead Books and was nearly recently a senior editor at Henry Holt & Company.

As an Aevitas agent based in Los Angeles, she is focused on assuming, diverse voices in fiction and nonfiction. She's particularly interested in stories of strong or difficult women and unexpected narratives of identify, of identity, and of the shifting means nosotros see ourselves and each other. She'southward also interested in nutrient history, vino, and dance.
Adriana Domínguez
SENIOR Agent

SENIOR AGENT

Adriana Domínguez

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

Adriana has wide-ranging experience in publishing; she began her editorial career at Scholastic in the 1990s, served as Children'southward Reviews Editor at Críticas Mag (Library Journal), and equally Executive Editor at HarperCollins, where she led the children's division of the Latinx-focused Rayo banner. She has a long trajectory of supporting authors and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds and e'er welcomes submissions that offer a various point 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 motion picture books to centre class. 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 marker. He, along with Todd Shuster, worked with former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe on his #1 New York Times bestseller, The Threat. More recently, he and Laura Nolan represented Hunter Biden on his memoir, Beautiful Things , which debuted at #four on the NYT listing. Granger is especially proud of having worked with Julie Yip-Williams to bring her The Unwinding of the Phenomenon (a #half dozen NYT bestseller) into the earth. It is currently existence adjusted for the screen. He has also helped Senator Jeff Chip, business legend Arthur Blank, and young activists David and Lauren Hogg with bestsellers that shaped the national conversation.

Granger was the editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine for nineteen years, from 1997 until 2016. During his tenure, the magazine won 17 National Magazine Awards and Granger was the industry's editor of the year on iii divide occasions. He was inducted into the Magazine Hall of Fame in 2020. In 2014, he was awarded the Missouri Honor Medal from the University 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, food 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 Agent

Sarah Lazin

Sarah Lazin began her publishing career on the editorial staff of Rolling Stone in 1971. In 1976, she established Rolling Rock Press, the book packaging segmentation 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 US Magazine. She too created book packaging divisions for Ms. Magazine, The Village Voice, Musician, Playboy, and Vibe Magazine, and created books for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum, The Experience Music Project, and The International Heart for Photography.

She is the co-founder and past president of the American Book 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 Pigsty 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 pop culture, biography, history, politics, journalism, memoir, parenting, health, practical nonfiction, contemporary affairs, social problems, and general reference. She accepts submissions through referral merely.
Sarah Levitt
SENIOR Amanuensis

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' Day Laurels recipient from New York Academy, with a BA in Classics and English literature. Prior to joining Aevitas, Levitt was every bit an agent at The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency, where she also handled contracts and strange rights.

As an Aevitas agent based in New York, she is most interested in narrative nonfiction in the areas of popular science, large ideas, history, sense of humor, pop culture, memoir, and reportage, in improver to vox-driven literary fiction with a assuming plot and fresh, imaginative characters. She's excited by strong female and underrepresented voices, the strange and speculative, and projects that ignite cultural conversation.
Volition Lippincott
SENIOR AGENT

SENIOR AGENT

Will Lippincott

Will Lippincott has represented projects such equally theNew York Times bestsellerA Colony in a Nation past Emmy Laurels-winning MSNBC host Chris Hayes, the national bestsellerUnfinished Business organisation by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Us Senator Mazie Hirono's historic memoir Heart of Fire, the acclaimed history of the Russian balletBolshoi Confidential by Princeton music historian and critic Simon Morrison, andKilling the Messenger pastNew York Times bestselling author 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 magazine and a business development director at the global consulting firm Booz Allen; publisher ofThe New Commonwealth; and volume publishing managing director atThe New Yorker.

Every bit an amanuensis 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 Amanuensis

SENIOR AGENT

Jen Marshall

Jen Marshall has worked closely over the years with a wide range of accolade-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 subsequently almost twenty years working for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Penguin Random Business firm in various roles from Director of Publicity for Anchor Books to Publicist-at-Big for the imprint. Prior to that, Jen worked as an independent bookseller. She brings to her work as an amanuensis a thorough understanding of the publishing and bookselling industries, likewise as deep expertise in public relations, social media, and audience-building. A native of northwest Connecticut, Jen graduated from Bucknell University with honors in English.

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

SENIOR AGENT

Penny Moore

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

Moore graduated from the University of Georgia with a double degree in Linguistics and Japanese Linguistic communication & Literature. During her time as an undergraduate, she too studied comparative literature at tiptop universities in Nippon and Southward Korea. Penny joined Aevitas in 2018, starting in the industry as an assistant/associate agent at FinePrint Literary Direction in 2014, and so joining Empire Literary as an agent two years afterward, where she built out the children's portion of the agency's listing.

Moore mainly represents children'due south literature, including picture books, middle form, and young adult. She also has an involvement 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 young readers feel seen and heard for the first fourth dimension.
Lauren Abrupt
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, top universities, prominent think tanks, and elsewhere.

Precipitous graduated from the University of Southward Carolina with a Bachelors in English, and from the Academy of Cincinnati with a Masters in English, Creative Writing. Prior to joining Aevitas, she worked every bit an agent and rights 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 Amanuensis

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 Body of water past Steven Ujifusa, the New York Times bestseller The Hugger-mugger Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel, and acclaimed narrative nonfiction such as The Trick Hunt by Mohammed Al Samawi.

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

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

Amanuensis

Erica Bauman

Erica Bauman represents a wide variety of authors across centre grade, young adult, and commercial developed 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 industry since 2012. Prior to Aevitas, she worked at Spectrum Literary Agency.

Based in New York, Erica is well-nigh 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 classic literature; sharply funny rom-coms; graphic novels for all ages; fearless storytellers that tackle big ideas and gimmicky issues; and working with and supporting marginalized authors and stories that represent the wide range of humanity.
Karen Brailsford
AGENT

Amanuensis

Karen Brailsford

Karen spent more than than 2 decades covering arts and culture, Hollywood, fashion, beauty and human involvement as a staff author and editor with Newsweek, Elle, In Touch and Eastward! Entertainment. Her writing has also 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 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: Adjustment with the Divine Wherever You Are(Wyatt-MacKenzie | 2020).

Karen is based in Los Angeles and is peculiarly interested in arts and entertainment, memoir, biography, health and wellness, spirituality and works of non-fiction that inspire and smooth a lite on contemporary atmospheric condition.
Justin Brouckaert
AGENT

AGENT

Justin Brouckaert

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

Justin holds an English language caste from Saginaw Valley State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Due south Carolina, where he was a James Dickey Fellow in Fiction and editor-in-chief of the internationally distributed literary journal Yemassee. He joined Aevitas in 2017 afterwards 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, too as narrative nonfiction in the areas of sports, net civilization, politics and current affairs, parenting, travel, and history. Regardless of genre, he is most passionate about projects that smooth a low-cal on underserved and disregarded communities and/or highlight unique relationships between people and places. He is particularly interested in pairing with debut authors and helping them grow their careers.
Chris Bucci
AGENT

AGENT

Chris Bucci

Chris Bucci represents bestselling and accolade-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 past Tara Moss.

Chris began his career at the University of Toronto Printing every bit 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 Agency as a literary amanuensis and later bought the agency, along with Martha Webb. In 2017 they merged with the Cooke Bureau to course CookeMcDermid where Chris was Proprietor and Literary Agent before coming to Aevitas in 2020.

Chris represents a broad range of both fiction and non-fiction equally an Aevitas agent based in the NY Metropolitan expanse. He aims to work with some of the culture's best writers, thinkers and experts—authors whose work helps us to interpret and understand our times as well every bit our future.
Maggie Cooper
AGENT

AGENT

Maggie Cooper

Maggie Cooper came to Aevitas in 2018 from the world of of small 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 Northward 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, nutrient 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 various range of genres, including, nigh recently, the biography Vivian Maier Developed by Ann Marks, the cookbook Cookies: The New Classics by Jesse Szewczyk (named a Best Cookbook of 2021 by the New York Times), the photography book Portrait of an Artist by Hugo Huerta Marin, and the New York Times bestselling oral history of "Grey'southward Anatomy" How to Save a Life by Lynette Rice.

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

Darga represents both non-fiction and fiction equally an Aevitas amanuensis based in Michigan. He is most interested in voice-driven popular civilisation writing, non-fiction histories that re-bandage the narrative by emphasizing unexpected or unheard voices, and both adult and young adult commercial fiction that features various casts and new stories. He is non looking for genre fiction similar political/offense thrillers, fantasy/sci-fi, or not-fiction in the self-help/how-to/business organization categories.
Trevor Dolby
Amanuensis ACM Britain

AGENT ACM UK

Trevor Dolby

Trevor Dolby has published scores of bestselling books during his thirty-five yr career in UK non-fiction publishing. He was the UK publisher of multi-1000000 selling Dave Pelzer'sA Child Called It trilogy, world-renowned historian James Holland, and the first UK net bestselling miracle The Darwin Awards. He created the international bestselling, Pythons on the Pythons and U2 on U2. He was one of the first publishers to found the celebrity memoir, editing David Essex, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Terri Hatcher, Colin Montgomery, Martin Kemp, Peter Kay, Phil Collins and many more. As Publisher and Managing Managing director of HarperCollins Entertainment partitioning, he managed the worldwide publishing rights to J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Britain and commonwealth 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 forces historian Peter Caddick-Adams, and many bestselling cook books. He established a high-end contract business for Penguin Random Firm creating illustrated books for international brands including Patek Philippe, Pinewood Studios, Soho Firm, The Groucho Social club, Marbella Guild and Davidoff. He remains the publisher of Lady Fiona Carnarvon and books associated with 'Highclere, The Real Downton Abbey'.

He won the 'Banner and Editor of the year' at the 2003 British Book Awards; and was a Non-Executive Director of Maverick Goggle box. He has spoken widely on the relationship between 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 Not-Executive Director of the Chalke Valley History Festival.

Trevor is looking for popular scientific discipline with a articulate relevance to everyday life, narrative history, military history, humor, biography, popular culture, natural history and great memoirs by passionate people whose lives have been well lived.
Max Edwards
AGENT ACM Uk

Agent ACM United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

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 crime novelists. Non-fiction he represents include Sunday Times Middle East Correspondent Louise Callaghan for Father of Lions; Suzanne Wrack, The Guardian's Women'south Football Correspondent for A Woman's Game: The History of Women'south Football; palaeontologist Dr David Strop for The Modern Age of Dinosaurs; and Jay Owen's Planet of Dust: How Nosotros Live in a Changing World. Fiction includes Aliya Whiteley's Clarke Award shortlisted The Loosening Pare, offense novels from Guy Morpuss and fantasy from Juliet Eastward. McKenna.

Max graduated from Kings Higher, London with a caste in English language. He worked every bit a bookseller at Blackwell's in Oxford and for Sports Interactive, developers of the computer game Football Director, earlier moving into publishing. He worked at a number of literary agencies including United Agents and Rogers, Coleridge and White, and set up-upwards 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 high concepts, smart plots and unique characters – twists and turns, expert (and bad) guys with depth and life. Max is also looking for bully stories that tin can be told through non-fiction; either unique or surprising takes on a field of study, or something wildly original. He'd love to hear from academics mixing the arts and science in a new style, journalists wanting to take their writing across 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

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Lori Galvin

Lori Galvin represents both adult fiction (especially women's fiction and offense 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 'xix); Hannah Kirshner'sWater, Wood, and Wild Things (Viking '21), Cambria Brockman's Tell Me Everything (Ballantine '19), and Wanda M. Morris'southward All Her Little Secrets (Morrow, '21). A few of Galvin'south client's projects have been optioned by A24 and Netflix.

Prior to joining Aevitas, Galvin was executive editor at the multimedia publisher America's Exam 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 equally an editor and agent. She has edited New York Times bestselling books like Nobel Prize Winner Elizabeth Blackburn's and Elissa Epel'south The Telomere Effect; Ballerina Torso by Misty Copeland; Eat to Beat Illness by Dr. William Li; Enough Already past Valerie Bertinelli; and cookbooks by Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Boulud, and others. As an amanuensis she's represented authors from award-winning psychologists to food writers to a Shaman.

Before coming to Aevitas, Karen was Editorial Managing director, Lifestyle and Culinary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, too as Editorial Director, Grand Key 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 administrative health, health, science and psychology, spirituality, inspirational (or only really fun) memoirs; original cookbooks, and narratives that illuminate a compelling subject or starting time a conversation.
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, culture, history, current events, and the future. He is based in New York.
Sara O'Keeffe
Amanuensis ACM UK

Amanuensis ACM UK

Sara O'Keeffe

Sara has come to Aevitas with 20 years' feel 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's fiction writer Elizabeth Buchan, Roman epic serial writer Robert Fabbri and honour-winning scientific discipline fiction writer Chris Beckett. She was the U.k. editor for Kevin Kwan's international bestseller, Crazy Rich Asians forth with Robert Ludlum's hugely successful Bourne series. She acquired and published the bestselling cult hit Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell which spent vi weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

Sara has a particular passion for Irish writing and has previously published rise 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 creativity and talent into commercial success. She is passionate about storytelling, with particular involvement 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 piece of work, and seeks to utilise that knowledge to requite her clients the all-time possible publishing journey.

Read more than nigh Sara's work on her website hither: www.saraokeeffe.co.united kingdom
Michael Signorelli
AGENT

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Michael Signorelli

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

Some of his favorite projects include: the Phi Beta Kappa Science Accolade-winning Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past past Sarah Parcak; National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biography Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos; the Human being Booker Prize-longlisted and New York Times bestselling novel The North Water past Ian McGuire, which NPR called, "an adventurous work of historical suspense fiction"; and the forthcoming Blackness Skinhead: The Uneasy Alliance betwixt Black Voters and the Autonomous Party by Brandi Collins-Dexter.

Signorelli graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in English Literature. At Aevitas Artistic Direction, Michael oversees a list of literary and commercial fiction as well every bit nonfiction spanning nature, science, adventure, electric current affairs, sports, and cultural history.
Simon Targett
AGENT ACM UK

Amanuensis ACM Uk

Simon Targett

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

An award-winning announcer and one-time Associate Editor of the Fiscal Times, he has served every bit 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 start Editor-in-Main 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'southward interests stretch across a wide range of not-fiction—including business organization and leadership, history, journalism, current affairs, biography, sport, music, popular scientific discipline, nature, travel, genealogy—as well as historical fiction. The common factor is an emphasis on big ideas, great stories, and fine writing.
Adam Moss
Creative CONSULTANT

Artistic CONSULTANT

Adam Moss

Adam Moss joined Aevitas every bit a Creative Consultant in 2019. Prior to Aevitas, he spent fifteen years atNew York magazine and New York Media as editor-in-chief. During his tenure,New York won 41 National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Yr. Prior toNew York, Moss was the editor ofThe New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2004, and later oversaw the Magazine, Book Review and Civilization and Style sections. Moss is the founding editor of7 Days, a weekly magazine that covered New York City arts and culture. Before foundingvii Days,Moss spent six years atEsquire in various editorial capacities.

Based in New York, Moss has an honorary Medico 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 three times named Editor of the Year pastAdvertising Age—twice for his piece of work atNew York and one time for his work atThe New York Times Mag. 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 Management 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 book 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 Press in London, W.W. 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/AGENT

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND PERSONNEL/Agent

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 University'southward Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Mack represents nonfiction equally an Aevitas amanuensis based in New York. She is near interested in cultural history, fashion, music, illustrated books for adults, strong female voices, and stories that give a voice to a person or community that'southward historically been silenced or ostracized.
Allison Warren
VP OF Evolution, Picture show & TV

VP OF Development, FILM & Goggle box

Allison Warren

Allison Warren joined Aevitas Creative Management in December 2016. Every bit VP of Development in the bureau's motion picture and tv department, Warren manages the bureau's relationship with acclaimed direction and production company Anonymous Content, and oversees film and television activities.

Previously, Warren served as Artistic Executive at Lava Bear Films, the LA-based film production and financing company founded by David Linde (which produced the Oscar-nominated movie Inflow, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, among others), after working in film evolution at Fox 2000, a partition of Twentieth Century Play a joke on specializing in book-to-picture show adaptations, and New Line Movie house.

Based in New York, Warren received a BS in Telly, Radio, and Film from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and is originally from Philadelphia.
Catharine Strong
Associate Amanuensis

ASSOCIATE AGENT

Catharine Stiff

Catharine Potent graduated summa cum laude from Colgate Academy with a BA in English language Literature and a minor in Film and Media Studies. She joined Aevitas in 2018 after interning at Akashic Books and the literary bureau Aragi, Inc. A born and raised Brooklynite, Catharine is based in New York.
Shenel Ekici-Moling
Pic/TV DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR

FILM/TV DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR

Shenel Ekici-Moling

Shenel Ekici-Moling joined Aevitas's Film and Idiot box section in 2018 as Section Coordinator, with supporting roles in the Business organization Affairs and Contracts departments. She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a BA in English language and Artistic Writing and was a William Haller Prize recipient and a Susan Ratner Writing Boyfriend. She originally hails from Istanbul, Turkey.
Jack Haug
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Jack Haug

Jack Haug studied English language 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 scientific discipline. He is based in New York.
Sydney James
EDITORIAL & AGENT'S ASSISTANT

EDITORIAL & Agent'Southward ASSISTANT

Sydney James

Sydney James studied English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London, she then completed her masters caste at the Academy Leeds and graduated with distinction. Before 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 UK since.
Elena Steiert
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

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, besides as narrative nonfiction and poetry.
Catherine Bai
OPERATIONS & Foreign RIGHTS ASSISTANT

OPERATIONS & Foreign RIGHTS Assistant

Catherine Bai

Catherine Bai joined Aevitas in 2022. She previously worked as an agent's banana 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 function, she was raised in Florida.
Paula Breen
CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

CONTRACTS NEGOTIATOR

Paula Breen

Paula Breen is a former publishing executive with over 30 years of feel in negotiating and deal-making. Before becoming an independent publishing consultant in 2003, she was Vice President and Manager 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 every bit a Contracts Managing director. Prior to working at Simon & Schuster, Kasey was the Acquaintance Director of Business Affairs at a major New York literary bureau, 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, outset serial licenses, moving-picture show agreements, and author-writer collaboration agreements.