◈ Literary Agency
Literary representation for debut voices.
Unpublished novelists. Nonfiction proposals. Poets ready for trade.
◈ The Voices
"The morning my mother forgot my name, she remembered every word of the recipe for her mother's bread."
Grief rendered in the grammar of the body. Every sentence earns its weight.
"I have been lying about my name for so long I sometimes answer to the wrong one in my sleep."
Identity fractured and reassembled. The voice is a controlled demolition.
"The detective arrived at the scene before the body did — she had learned to read cities the way other people read faces."
Propulsive and precise. Plot and prose in conversation rather than competition.
"We called it a farm but it was just a field where things died slowly enough that we could pretend otherwise."
Violence as landscape, landscape as character. Stays with you like a smell.
"Every poem I wrote that year began with the word you, which is how I know I wasn't writing poems."
The essay-poem hybrid this form has been waiting for. Formally daring, emotionally exact.
"The proposal was forty-eight pages long and said nothing about what it felt like to watch your country choose to forget."
Urgency married to rigor. The kind of book that changes what a reader can un-see.
"She had been translating her grandmother's letters for eleven years; what she found on page sixty-three made her stop."
Dual timelines that mirror rather than echo. The past is not backdrop — it is protagonist.
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