Erika Storella is a literary agent with The Gernert Company. Erika is the Chief Operating Officer and a literary agent at The Gernert Company. She joined in 2005 after completing a MA in social science at the University of Chicago. Her graduate work sparked an interest in how new ideas are brought to the public and led her to pursue a career in publishing. Originally from Boston, she now resides in Brooklyn with her husband and children and is looking for nonfiction projects that make an argument, narrate a history, and/or provide a new perspective.