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With few exceptions, I am not a fit for: SFF (Science Fiction / Fantasy), commercial fiction, YA (Young Adult), books set in NYC/LA, or books that feature eating disorders. If this is you, I would highly recommend the other agents at Howland Literary (meet them here: https://howlandliterary.com/meet-our-agents).

What I am looking for is best explained by the books I've already repped, projects like:

Morgan Day's The Oldest Bitch Alive (Astra House): following an aging French bulldog who lives in a glass house and one day ingests an orb of parasitic worms; approaching death, and filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently—her artist-architect owners, the younger dog alongside whom she lives, and the wild unknown beyond the panes.
Sara Maurer's A Good Animal (St. Martin's): set against the isolated backdrop of a sheep farm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the '90s, following a high school couple as they tumble toward a rash decision informed by the laws and limits of their access to reproductive care, blurring the line between agency and endangerment.
Lauren Haddad's Fireweed (Astra House): following a white woman's misguided investigation into the disappearance of an Indigenous woman along the Highway of Tears, subverting the missing woman plot and exploring how we make the public tragedies of others our own when looking for a positive reflection of ourselves; pitched for readers of Samantha Hunt and Mona Awad.
Maria Pinto's Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless (Great Circle): essays on subjects ranging from zombifying fungi to deforestation for the sake of police training in Atlanta, finding through the author's foraging that the indispensable yet understudied fungal kingdom is, like the experiences of many marginalized communities, defiant to rigid study, and that the very marginality that has marked the lives of Black, brown, queer, and neurodivergent folks helps them dwell in and with the mystery from which mushrooms emerge.
Jen Jackson Quintano's Unlikely Praise Song (Broadleaf): underscoring through her deep-rooted love for the complicated landscape she calls home, the need to challenge the harmful rhetoric colonizing the US’s most conservative communities, with a commitment to reproductive freedom, empowerment of women’s stories, and dignity for women nationwide.

To see what I'm currently looking for, please look over my 2025 wishlist, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m2w0Q5Onre03fo1FpZDb28G3u0nbVovA/view?usp=sharing

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