About

I was raised in Palo Alto, California and my first love was dance. Before going to college, I trained pre-professionally with the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago and danced with ballet companies in Milwaukee and Sarasota.  Returning to school, I studied English and French Literature at Columbia University in New York. In 2017 I received my Bachelor of Arts, graduating summa cum laude and winning the Barrat Brown Memorial Prize for excellence in critical writing for my thesis on the relationship between epistolary novels and non-literary letter writing in 18th century France. I started my publishing career as a student, first as an intern for the French publisher Présence Africaine Éditions while studying abroad in Paris, and subsequently as a reader for agencies. Upon graduation, I embarked on my career in publishing.

My first position was at ICM Partners (now part of Creative Artists Agency) performing royalty, sales, and contract analysis to support agent negotiations and inform agency business decisions. I analyzed the performance of key accounts including those of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and William Goldman (The Princess Bride), evaluated the impact of film adaptation on book sales (Where’d You Go Bernadette?, Crazy Rich Asians, Beautiful Boy), and provided the comparative analysis and sales forecasts used to justify demanding higher advances and better rates. From there I joined Janklow & Nesbit Associates, where I worked for three years supporting literary agents Mel Flashman and Emma Parry, whose impressive clients include Stephanie Danler (Sweetbitter, Stray), Christine Blasey Ford (One Way Back), David Graeber and David Wengrow (The Dawn of Everything), Conor Dougherty (Golden Gates), Astra Taylor (Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone), Anne Boyer (The Undying), Tricia Hersey (Rest is Resistance), Rutger Bregman (Humankind), Meg Howrey (They’re Going to Love You), Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl), and many more. While assisting on their titles, I worked to build my own list of fiction, nonfiction, and young adult novels and began selling books. In June 2021, I joined O’Connor Literary Agency as a literary agent.

In my freetime, I still love to dance — mostly ballet and salsa — but my family does have an annual dance competition each summer where any style is up for grabs (by grace of which I can now do a mean 32 counts of shuffle dance and the first half of Single Ladies). I also remain active in the arts as a communications consultant for the non-profit organization Gugulethu Ballet Project which does amazing work supporting young dancers in the townships of South Africa. I live in Brooklyn and am a member of Prospect Park Track Club, where we take casual runners and convince them to run crazier and crazier things (asthmatic me even completed the New York City Marathon in 2023 and 2024). I also enjoy hiking, trying all the bagels NYC has to offer, and—of course—reading, preferably while snuggled up with a sweet little dog.