Manuscript Mart: Agents and Editors

Agents and Editors for Manuscript Mart 2026

Registration for GrubStreet members will open on Tuesday, February 17, at 1:00 PM EST. Registration for non-members will open on Friday, February 20, at 1:00 PM EST. Registration links for each agent and editor will be active at that time.

Scroll below to peruse the agents and editors participating in Manuscript Mart 2026!

Agents and Editors whose appointments have sold out may be found by scrolling to the bottom of this page.

We will continue to add agents and editors in the coming weeks, so keep checking back!

How to Register for Manuscript Mart Appointments

Registering with an agent or editor for the Manuscript Mart is similar to signing up for a regular GrubStreet class or event.

Follow these simple steps to book your appointment:

Make sure you are logged in to your GrubStreet.org account.
Check below for the agent or editor with whom you’d like to book an appointment.
Click the registration link BELOW the agent or editor’s profile to go directly to their registration page.

>>> The REGISTRATION LINK you need to click on looks something like this: REGISTER FOR [AGENT NAME]

Once on the registration page, you can add an appointment to your shopping cart and check out when you’re ready.

LINKS WILL BECOME ACTIVE ON FEBRUARY 17 WHEN REGISTRATION OPENS FOR GRUBSTREET MEMBERS.

Important Note About Appointment Scheduling

Manuscript Mart appointments will take place over Zoom.
Zoom links and schedule times will be assigned mid-month in April 2026 and be emailed to each participant by 11:59 PM EDT on April 23, 2026.
Meetings will run twenty minutes and be scheduled to start on the half-hour during each agent or editor's availability windows.

Cancellation Policies

Up until the manuscript sample submission deadline and close of registration on April 7, 2026, the Manuscript Mart adheres to GrubStreet's Refund and Cancellation Policy.

After the Manuscript Mart close of registration at 11:59 PM EDT on April 7, 2026, there are no refunds or credit for cancellations of Manuscript Mart appointments. If your manuscript sample is not received by the submission deadline of 11:59 PM EDT on April 7, 2026, your appointment will be considered cancelled and ineligible for refund or credit.

Scholarships

Scholarships are available for the Manuscript Mart, with applications accepted on a rolling basis until the deadline on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. Since funds are limited, we highly encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Learn More About & Apply for A Scholarship

Editor: Foyinsi Adegbonmire

Foyinsi Adegbonmire is an Editor at Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. She acquires Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction and is open to contemporary, mystery, romance, and fantasy, while enjoying lighthearted stories with conversational narrative voices. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR FOYINSI ADEGBONMIRE

Agent: Ty Anania

Ty Anania represents adult fiction and nonfiction at WME, with some occasional crossover into YA fantasy and science fiction. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR TY ANANIA

Literary Magazine Editor: José Araguz

José Angel Araguz, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University where he is also a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. He blogs and reviews books at his personal site, The Influence. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR JOSÉ ARAGUZ

Agent: Danielle Bukowski

Danielle Bukowski is an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, focusing on upmarket and literary fiction and narrative nonfiction for adults. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR DANIELLE BUKOWSKI

Agent: Heather Carr

Heather Carr is an agent at The Friedrich Agency where she represents award-winning and bestselling fiction and nonfiction for adults. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR HEATHER CARR

Agent: Nikki Carrero

Nikki Carrero (she/her) is an assistant agent at The Rights Factory. She has a background in education, marketing, publishing, and book selling, and loves to see people fall in love with stories. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR NIKKI CARRERO

Agent: Haley Casey

Haley Casey is an associate agent at Creative Media Agency and is actively building her list, is seeking diverse and compelling stories, and is ready to assist her authors in achieving their publishing goals. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR HALEY CASEY

Editor: Leland Cheuk

Leland Cheuk is the founder of 7.13 Books and lives in Los Angeles. 7.13 Books is looking for literary fiction for adults—novels and short story collections—and leans heavily toward debut authors. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR LELAND CHEUK

Agent: Jane Chun

Jane Chun joined Transatlantic in 2023 after four years at Janklow & Nesbit Associates and represents writers and writer-illustrators across middle grade, YA, and adult in fiction and select nonfiction. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR JANE CHUN

Agent: Natalie Edwards

Natalie Edwards joined Trellis Literary Management at its founding in the fall of 2021. In fiction, she looks for upmarket and literary projects that combine an accessible voice with a page-turning plot. In nonfiction, she gravitates toward compelling journalistic narratives, issue-driven hybrid memoirs, hidden histories, cultural criticism, and “systems” books that blow open the inner workings of everyday things we take for granted. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR NATALIE EDWARDS

Agent: Brenna English-Loeb

Brenna English-Loeb works with authors of adult genre fiction and adult nonfiction, with select YA and crossover clients. She joined the Transatlantic in 2019 after working for several years at Janklow & Nesbit Associates and Writers House, working with New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors across multiple genres. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR BRENNA ENGLISH-LOEB

Agent: Cherise Fisher

Cherise Fisher is a literary agent with Wendy Sherman Associates Literary Management, representing both fiction and nonfiction authors, and a former acquiring editor at Simon & Schuster and Penguin. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR CHERISE FISHER

Agent: Alexandra Franklin

Alexandra Franklin joined Curtis Brown in 2023 as an associate in the dramatic rights department and as an associate agent in the books department. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR ALEXANDRA FRANKLIN

Editor: Kukuwa Fraser

Kukuwa Fraser (she/her) is an editor at Flatiron Books, where she acquires literary, historical, and contemporary fiction, with a focus on amplifying stories by writers of color and historically underrepresented voices in literature. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR KUKUWA FRASER

Literary Magazine Editor: Darcy Gagnon

Darcy is an essayist from Washington, D.C. and was formerly the senior nonfiction editor at The Rumpus. He has worked with writers of longform and shortform creative nonfiction, especially within genres of hybrid-form essay, translation, music writing, queer writing, and other topics that rely heavily on research. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR DARCY GAGNON

Agent: Amy Giuffrida

Amy has been an associate literary agent since 2020 with Belcastro Agency and is looking for commercial/book club women's fiction as well as thrillers, horror/horror romance, sports romance, paranormal romance, and dark romance. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR AMY GIUFFRIDA

Agent: Veronica Goldstein

Veronica Goldstein is an agent with over ten years of experience, having previously worked at UTA and Fletcher & Company, and is now with DCL Literary Agency. She’s drawn to distinctive voices with a fresh story to tell and a strong sense of urgency, especially Americans whose stories have been underrepresented in publishing and international writers. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR VERONICA GOLDSTEIN

Agent: Mark Gottlieb

Mark Gottlieb is Executive Vice President and a literary agent at Trident Media Group, one of the world’s leading full-service literary agencies. Based in New York, he represents a wide range of bestselling and award-winning authors across fiction and nonfiction, children's books, and graphic novels. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR MARK GOTTLIEB

Agent: Susan Graham

Susan Graham (they/them/theirs) joined Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner Agency in January 2025 after nearly a decade as an agent at Einstein Literary Management. They represent illustrators across format and age categories, children's creators, and adult genre fiction. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR SUSAN GRAHAM

Agent: Chelsea Hensley

Chelsea Hensley is an agent at Mad Woman Literary Agency representing a varied list of clients writing across ages and genres and a few who are also illustrating. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR CHELSEA HENSLEY

Agent: Carrie Howland

Carrie Howland is a twenty-one-year veteran in the publishing industry. She worked for fourteen years as a literary agent at two New York City based agencies before founding her eponymous agency, Howland Literary, LLC in 2018. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR CARRIE HOWLAND

Agent: Kaitlyn Katsoupis

After receiving a BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College, Kaitlyn refused to leave the concept of nightly homework behind. A literary agent for Belcastro Literary Agency, she is also a freelance editor at her own company, Strictly Textual. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR KAITLYN KATSOUPIS

Agent: Sarah Khalil

Sarah Khalil is a literary agent with Calligraph representing serious nonfiction and memoir. Radical thought, artful storytelling, and propulsive narrative are the cornerstones of her taste. She is also seeking select fiction in the same space. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR SARAH KHALIL

Editor: Dan López

Dan López is an Associate Editor at Counterpoint Press based in Los Angeles. His interests include literary and commercial fiction, cultural histories, works in translation (particularly from the Spanish), and books that explore the Hispanic/Latino(a)/Latinx experience. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR DAN LÓPEZ

Agent: Alec MacDonald

Alec Yoshio MacDonald joined Straus Literary in 2018, having previously worked at the League of Women Voters of the Bay Area and Browne & Miller Literary Associates in Chicago. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR ALEC MACDONALD

Agent: Kiana Nguyen

Kiki Nguyen started in publishing in 2015 with an internship with Wunderkind PR, an independent book publishing PR company, working on campaigns with authors such as Ernest Cline. There, she discovered a practical industry for her codependent love of fiction. She joined Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2016. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR KIANA NGUYEN

Agent: Amaryah Orenstein

Amaryah Orenstein, president of GO Literary, represents a wide array of literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR AMARYAH ORENSTEIN

Agent: Rebecca Podos

Rebecca Podos (she/they) began her career as a literary agent in 2011, and is a Senior Agent at Neighborhood Literary. She is currently looking for Young Adult and Adult genre fiction, with select nonfiction projects considered. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR REBECCA PODOS

Agent: Rebecca Rodd

Rebecca Rodd is an Associate Agent at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency where she began in 2020. She represents both fiction and nonfiction writers covering all age groups. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR REBECCA RODD

Agent: Mason Rowlee

Mason Rowlee joined DeFiore & Company in 2023. Mason only represents adult books. He is seeking innovative, boundary-pushing literary fiction, engrossing upmarket and commercial fiction, and nonfiction that amplifies traditionally underrepresented voices in publishing. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR MASON ROWLEE

Agent: Rayhané Sanders

Rayhané Sanders is a literary agent at Massie McQuilkin & Altman with over 17 years of industry experience. She represents literary, historical, and upmarket book club fiction; a wide range of narrative nonfiction; and select memoir. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR RAYHANÉ SANDERS

Agent: Lauren Scovel

Lauren Scovel has been with Laura Gross Literary Agency since 2017, where she is proud to represent a diverse list of clients across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Before agenting, she worked for several years as an independent bookseller. Learn more.

REGISTER FOR LAUREN SCOVEL