As of August 2025, I am currently seeking fiction and nonfiction for adult readership and selected young adult and middle grade titles. In all genres, queries are especially welcome from historically marginalized writers, including disabled, queer, and BIPOC authors.

• All Things Historical:

  • Fiction: I’m eager to find commercial and upmarket historical fiction that challenges and educates readers, particularly those that explore the margins of history books and those from marginalized perspectives. I gravitate toward well-researched work that reads cinematically, subverts expectations, has steady escalating tension, and is character-driven. If you have a book that’s like the first half of Sinners (without the vampires), I want to read it! Here are some of the authors I’m always eager to pick up: Kristin Hannah, Sadeqa Johnson, Geraldine Brooks, Marjan Kamali, and Taylor Jenkins Reid.

  • History blended with other genres, like historical mystery or historical fantasy - one of my favorite books I read last year was The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. It’s a character driven adventure with pirate history, a diverse cast of characters, and explorations of family. It left me wanting more, and I’m open to historical fantasy in a similar lane.

• Contemporary & Other Fiction (Upmarket & Commercial):

  • Book club fiction, especially those exploring issues of class, wealth, identity, society’s evolving relationship with technology, motherhood/parenthood, messy family dynamics, and mental health. Recent favorites have included The Wedding People by Alison Espach and The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.

  • In conversation with classic literature, like Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese.

  • With a speculative edge, like Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, which is set in a future devastated by climate change, and A Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, which explore themes of history, colonialism, and feminism through time travel.

• Mystery:

  • voicey, chaotic, and character-driven, like the Finlay Donovan series from Elle Cosimano (big hook and unforgettable characters) and The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff (a case of mistaken past gone wild).

• Essays and Memoirs:

  • Big issues told through personal vignettes - I will be forever in a reading hangover from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kemmerer. I’d love to read more of this blend of science and personal. The self-deprecating humor in I’ll Show Myself Out by Jessi Klein was laugh-out-loud funny and it made me feel less alone as a parent. I’d love to see more of this type of book as well.

• History and Science:

  • I love history: biography, narrative, case study, etc. In a past life, I worked at a university alongside scientists and public health professionals, and I’m looking for focused narratives that change the way we view the world. I think the structures of the biographical works Vanderbilt and Astor by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe are narratively engaging and effective. The Art Thief read like fiction - I was hooked! In the science space, I love Mary Roach’s writing style.

• Cooking & Food:

  • I adore cooking, and it would be a dream to represent a cookbook, especially one that focuses on accessibility, cooking education, reducing food waste, dietary needs, and the role food plays in building community. Several of my go-to recipes are from Samin Nosrat, Nadya Hussain, Nagi Maehashi, and The World Central Kitchen Cookbook.