Rachel Letofsky is a literary agent at the Transatlantic Agency. She has been working in publishing since 2010 and started building her list as a literary agent in 2013. She represents bestselling and award-winning authors such as Cherie Dimaline, Danny Ramadan, Ivan Coyote, Jessica Johns, and Vivek Shraya, and is the agent for the ground-breaking anthology Never Whistle at Night, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore Van Alst Jr., which has been on the Indie Bestseller list since its publication in September 2023 and sold over 100,000 copies in North America. RachelÕs clients have been nominated for, and won, such prestigious prizes as the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award, the Giller Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Governor GeneralÕs Awards, the OLAÕs Forest of Tree Awards, the WriterÕs Trust Awards, the Trillium Awards, the BC Book Awards, CBCÕs Canada Reads, the Sunburst Award, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, the Pink Triangle Awards, and the Rogers WritersÕ Trust Awards.Rachel travels extensively for pleasure and work, and attends many publishing events, conferences, fairs and festivals where she teaches classes, sits on panels, acts as a judge for literary competitions, and is consulted as a publishing expert. Rachel is currently on the board as secretary for PACLA (the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents), a position she has served in for four years, and she is a member of the AALA (the American Association of Literary Agents). A Canadian by birth, Rachel currently resides in the Oregon where she loves spending time with her family, the drizzly rainy weather, swimming in the ocean, hiking in the woods, Pilates, cooking and reading in Òthe comfy chairÓ with her three cats (when they arenÕt plotting their way into the fish tank).