
The Directory of Literary Agents
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Literary Agent Directory
Important: Visit each agent’s website (links in their listings below) to see if they’re open to submissions before querying.
Elise Howard
Biography
Elise Howard is a literary agent with DeFiore and Company. Prior to joining DeFiore & Company, Elise Howard was the founding publisher of Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Workman Publishing, which she led from 2011 to 2022. Elise was previously SVP and associate publisher at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she oversaw the publication of many award-winning and bestselling books. Some of the authors she has worked with include Masuma Ahuja, Avi, Tracey Baptiste, Kelly Barnhill, Sara Farizan, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Jensen, and Nova Ren Suma. Books she has edited have won the Newbery Medal twice, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best juvenile novel twice, and many other awards and honors. She began her career as a book packager, conceiving, selling to publishers, and developing juvenile and adult fiction and non-fiction projects.
As a literary agent, Elise is looking for new favoritesÑ hers, an editorÕs, and ultimately the readerÕs: fiction and non-fiction to be savored and remembered for its immersive storytelling, rich world-building, and illumination of landscapes known and unknown.
Elise is generally not looking for genre fiction, but she may take on a book with a great love story at its heart or one with elements of fantasy. She is looking for a twisty, well-done mystery, especially if it features a great new sleuth with many stories to tell.
SheÕs also eager to represent eye-opening narrative non-fiction, particularly stories of the natural world, visible or invisible, including the human mind and body, or of people and events previously unknown or overlooked.
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Accepting Submissions | New Literary Agents | Member of the AALA |BIPOC Fiction | Fantasy | General Fiction | LGBTQ Fiction | Multicultural Fiction | Mystery |Biography | BIPOC Nonfiction | Environment | Gardening | LGBTQ Nonfiction | Mind Body Spirit | Multicultural Nonfiction | Narrative Nonfiction | Nature | Science | Women’s Issues |
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