Dara Hyde is a literary agent with the Hill Nadell Literary Agency in Los Angeles. She is a senior agent at the Hill Nadell Literary Agency in Los Angeles and represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including literary and genre fiction, graphic novels, narrative non-fiction, memoir, and young adult. Before joining Hill Nadell, Dara spent over a decade as an editor and rights and permissions manager at independent publisher Grove Atlantic in New York.

Dara has taught or spoken at a number of writersÕ conferences and events, including Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 826LA, BinderCon, New Orleans WritersÕ Conference, Pima WritersÕ Workshop, PubWest, Long Beach Comic Expo, IWOSC, Antioch University LA MFA, Chapman University MFA, UC Riverside MFA and UCR Palm Desert MFA, Santa Barbara WritersÕ Conference, Fallbrook WritersÕ Conference, and the Literary Editing and Publishing (LEAP) program at USC.