AGENTS & EDITORS

Please stay tuned for information regarding our 2009 Aspen Summer Words agents and editors.

Our Aspen Summer Words 2008 Agents & Editors included:

Elizabeth Evans worked at Reece Halsey North as a reader and editor for two years before becoming an associate agent in 2006. She represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including literary fiction, mysteries, science fiction, biography and memoir. She is especially drawn to voice-driven fiction and narrative nonfiction in unfamiliar or exotic settings. Special interests include opera, fishing, environmental issues and espionage; she does not handle children's or young adult books, poetry or screenplays. Her forthcoming titles include Courage to Surrender, The Geography of Love, and Even Smoke Leaves a Trace. She lives in San Francisco, California.		© Chris Hansen
Jennifer Flannery opened Flannery Literary in 1992, representing authors who write for children and young adults. She works with such authors as three-time Newbery Honor winner Gary Paulsen and National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman, and has represented the National Book Award-winning novel When Zachary Beaver Came to Town as well as the Newbery Honor winner Getting Near to Baby. Prior to opening her own agency, she worked as a literary agent's assistant and an editorial assistant at HarperCollins in the trade division. She was an English and Journalism major and holds a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. She lives and works in Naperville, Illinois, just outside Chicago.		© Hannah Flannery
Esmond Harmsworth is a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. He represents fiction (literary fiction, mysteries, thrillers, historical novels, mainstream fiction and young adult/middle grade fiction) and nonfiction (politics, psychology, pop culture, literary food writing, art, media, culture and society). He has a special interest in business books on management, leadership, finance, marketing and entrepreneurship. Recent authors include: Sabina Murray, David Rothkopf, Sara Roahen, Keith McFarland, Kacy Duke, Robert Emmons, and Laura Dietz. Born in London, he was educated in England before graduating from Brown University and Harvard Law School, and now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.		© Rosemary Giuffre
Erin Malone is a literary agent at William Morris, a graduate of the century-old agency's trainee program. She represents primarily fiction (historical, literary thrillers, up-market commercial) and narrative nonfiction. She currently works with Christian Lander, Jennifer Steinhauer & Jessica Hendra, Laura Fraser, Rose George, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Cliff Mason, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Antwone Fisher, Kathy Cano-Murillo, Jason Mulgrew, Dito Montiel, Randy Sue Coburn, Daniel Levin, Dawn Shamp, and Lynn York. Prior to 2003, she spent three years working in production and development. She is a graduate of Denison University, where she majored in English and Theatre. She lives in Manhattan.		©Laura Rose
Michael Mezzo is an editor at Spiegel & Grau, a new publishing division of Random House, where he acquires a range of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. He previously worked at Little, Brown and Company. The books he has published include Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole, which was a Booksense Pick and an Original Voices selection at Borders; Dave King';s T'e Ha-Ha, which was a national bestseller and selected by the Washington Post Book World and Christian Science Monitor as one of the best books of the year; and Dan Simmons's The Terror, which was a national bestseller. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.		© Sandra Bark
Andrew Miller is a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, where he acquires works of history, journalism, politics, and narrative nonfiction. Authors he works with include Tom Bissell, Max Hastings, Tom Vanderbilt, Kevin Baker, Michael Kazin, Leon Litwack, David Brion Davis, and former Mets pitcher Ron Darling. He was previously at St. Martin's, Grove/Atlantic and Vintage Books, where he edited the Iraq Study Group Report and The Hipster Handbook. He is a member of the advisory board at the Goucher College Creative Nonfiction MFA program and of the AAP's International Freedom to Publish Committee. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.		© Barry Morgenstein
Ayesha Pande is an agent at Collins Literary, a boutique agency located in New York. She represents literary and popular fiction, including women's, African American and international fiction. She also represent nonfiction, including biography, history, popular culture, cultural commentary, science, and some how-to. She is a former editor with 18 years of experience in publishing. Before becoming an agent she was a senior editor at Farrar Straus and Giroux. She has also held editorial positions at HarperCollins and Crown Publishers, a division of Random House. She is a member of PEN and serves on the advisory board of the German Book Office.		© Ayesha Pande
Rakesh Satyal is an editor at HarperCollins, where he works with such writers as Paulo Coelho, Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin, and George Michael. Prior to arriving at Harper, he worked at Doubleday Broadway/Random House for four years, assisting on books by Chuck Palahniuk, Bill Bryson, and Gore Vidal, as well as acquiring and editing singer-songwriter Tori Amos's bestselling memoir. He specializes in culturally unique and international fiction (including translated literature) and in strong narrative nonfiction and pop culture (especially music). A member of the planning committee for the PEN World Voices Festival, he is also the author of the forthcoming novel Blue Boy. He lives in New York City.		© Anselm Skogstad
Rob Spillman is editor and co-founder of Tin House, a nine-year-old bi-coastal (Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon) literary magazine. Tin House has been honored in Best American Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, O’Henry Prize Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and numerous other anthologies. A few of the writers he has edited: Richard Ford, Amy Hempel, Jim Shepard, David Foster Wallace, Allan Gurganus, Francine Prose, Dorothy Allison, Stuart Dybek, Rick Moody, Nick Flynn, Mary Gaitskill, Kelly Link, and Stephen King. He is also the executive editor of Tin House Books and co-founder of the Tin House Literary Festival. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.		© Elissa Schappell