Sarah Fuentes is a literary agent with the United Talent Agency (UTA). She joined UTA in 2023 with a decade of experience, most recently with Fletcher & Company where she spent seven years building her list after beginning her career at The Wylie Agency. She represents both literary and upmarket fiction and a range of nonfiction, and her clients include Keri Blakinger, Jake Bittle, Julia Rosen, Sarah Everts, and A. Natasha Joukovsky.

Across genres she is looking for sharp and distinct contemporary voices, compelling prose, and singular points of view. In fiction sheÕs interested in novels that dig into the complicated inner workings of relationships and bring readers deep in the messy minds of their characters, and particularly those that wrestle with class, sexuality, race, and power in all its forms. She also loves a twist of humor, a dark bent, or a speculative or uncanny edge. Some of her favorite novelists are Julia Armfield, Rachel Yoder, Jen Beagin, Hilary Leichter, Raven Leilani, Alyssa Nutting, Katie Kitamura, Elif Batuman, Ling Ma, Sigrid Nunez, and Imbolo Mbue.

In nonfiction, sheÕs drawn to idea-driven narratives that help explain how we see and construct the world around us or that bring some hidden architecture into view. Her interests span literary memoir, popular science, investigative journalism, history (social, intellectual, and overlooked histories in particular), and cultural criticism and essays.

Born and raised in Southern California, she moved to New York to study literature and art history at Vassar College and now lives in Brooklyn.