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I’m looking for adult literary and upmarket fiction & narrative nonfiction and essay collections (not memoirs). 

Across genres, I gravitate toward outsiders and stylish, inventive storytelling. I’m primarily interested in how subcultures, social movements, and complex individuals intersect with pop culture and the arts, history, STEM, linguistics, sports, and philosophy. Happy endings and likable characters are not particularly important to me. I have a hands-on, collaborative approach to editing and love helping writers shape their projects for publication. I’m especially passionate about advocating for authors from underrepresented and marginalized and minoritized groups (including writers without MFAs).

a non-exhaustive list of non-client books I admire: 

FICTION

MARTYR! by KAVEH AKBAR

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by JULIA ARMFIELD

BUNNY by MONA AWAD

MILKMAN by ANNA BURNS

PIRANESI by SUSANNA CLARKE

MONSTRILIO by GERARDO SAMANO CORDOVA

RAZORBLADE TEARS by S.A. COSBY

GEEK LOVE by KATHERINE DUNN

OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by MARIANA ENRIQUEZ

THE WILDERNESS by ANGELA FLOURNOY

SHARK HEART by EMILY HABECK

I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by JACQUELINE HARPMAN

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by SHIRLEY JACKSON

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS by MARLON JAMES

THE FIRST BAD MAN by MIRANDA JULY

THE VEGETARIAN by HAN KANG

MIRACLE CREEK by ANGIE KIM

AUDITION by KATIE KITAMURA

WHITE TEARS by HARI KUNZRU

EVERYTHING HERE IS BEAUTIFUL by MIRA T. LEE

LUSTER by RAVEN LELANI

THE BOOK OF GOOSE by YIYUN LI

NORTH WOODS by DANIEL MASON

MADE FOR LOVE by ALISSA NUTTING

BOY, SNOW, BIRD by HELEN OYEYEMI

THE HOUNDING by XENOBE PURVIS

FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS

THE OLD DRIFT by NAMWALI SERPELL

THE LIFE OF THE MIND by CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD

THE SAFEKEEP by YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN

LONELY CROWDS by STEPHANIE WAMBUGU

THE CATCH by YRSA DALEY-WARD

SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM by LAURA WARRELL

GONE TO THE WOLVES by JOHN WRAY

Y/N by ESTHER YI

NONFICTION

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES by RACHEL AVIV

INVISIBLE WOMEN by CAROLINE CRIADO-PEREZ

ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE by FRANS DE WAAL

MONSTERS by CLAIRE DEDERER

INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE by DENNIS DUNCAN

BLACK HOLE BLUES by JANNA LEVIN

BECAUSE INTERNET by GRETCHEN MCCULLOCH

ON TRAILS by ROBERT MOOR

MOOD MACHINE by LIZ PELLY

GULP by MARY ROACH

THE FOOD EXPLORER by DANIEL EVAN STONE

FEARING THE BLACK BODY by SABRINA STRINGS

KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS by JING TSU

WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS by SAIDIYA HARTMAN