Grainne Fox is a literary agent with United Talent Agency (UTA). She represents award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelists, journalists and academics. Gr‡inne joined UTA in 2023, from Fletcher & Company and before that, she worked in London with Ed Victor. Her clients have been shortlisted for, or won, various awards including The William Hill Sports Book of The Year, The Booker Prize, The WomenÕs Prize, The Irish Book Awards, The British Book Awards, The Orwell Prize, The Plutarch Award, the RTƒ Short Story Competition, and the NBCC.
Gr‡inne grew up in Ireland and naturally has a passion for Irish literature but also British and European writers who appeal to a US and international audience. She is also actively looking for debut literary voices from the US. She loves books of all stripes that Òstimulate the mind and satisfy the heart.Ó This runs the gamut from Literary Fiction to Reading Group Fiction through to propulsive Narrative non-fiction.
She is drawn to writers who delight and entertain their readers with every single line. That could mean intergenerational dysfunctional family stories, or genre-bending, uncanny fiction that creates new worlds and new ways of telling love stories, or singular literary suspense and thriller thatÕs distinctive, original and usually told through a feminist lens. Or historical fiction thatÕs exquisitely written and has lots to say to the modern reader.
She is always looking for smart, narrative non-fiction that catches readers by the throat and illuminates a slice of social history through exceptional, novelistic storytelling. Or books with new and emerging research on human behaviour that explain why we do what we do are of particular interest. She is proud to work with The International Spy Museum and is obsessed with espionage and intelligence generally.
Given her unique UK experience, she is privileged to work with select British agencies for the US market, and works with many novelists such as Sophie Mackintosh, Sarah Pinborough, Lucy Clarke, Clare Chambers and Holly Gramazio.
She has a degree in English Literature from Trinity College, Dublin, a postgrad from Dublin Institute of Technology and is a hands-on, fierce advocate for her clients and their work.