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Alex Glass
Alex Glass has been at Trident Media Group since 2001. Recently called an “A-list agent” in Entertainment Weekly, Alex represents a diverse list of authors writing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children, including New York Times and internationally bestselling authors and winners of awards such as the Edgar, the Newbery, and the O’Henry. His books include literary and mainstream commercial fiction, crime fiction and thrillers; nonfiction including sports, popular culture, humor, health and wellness, lifestyle, and narrative nonfiction; as well as YA and middle grade fiction. His books have been translated in dozens of foreign languages and sold to the movies and television.
Lisa Bankoff
Lisa Bankoff's client list is long on literary fiction, historical fiction, memoir and narrative nonfiction. Clients include Nancy Horan (Loving Frank), Ann Patchett (State of Wonde), N.M. Kelby (White Truffles in Winter), Joshua Henkin (The World Without You), Jessica Maria Tuccelli (Glow), E.J. Miller (Brand New Human Being), New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, historian Douglas Brinkley, The New Yorker contributor John Colapinto, NBCC winner and bioethicist Harriet Washington. After a series of entry-level jobs in publishing, she was hired by ICM on a temporary basis to be a department floater. She became the temp who wouldn’t float away.
Katharine Sands
A literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, Katharine Sands has worked with a varied list of authors who publish a diverse array of books. Highlights include Dating the Devil (ABC-TV) by Lia Romeo; The New Rules of Attraction by Arden Leigh; XTC: SongStories; and The Unofficial Guide to House, MD. Katharine is the agent provocateur of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents. Actively building her client list, she likes books that have a clear benefit for readers' lives in categories of food, travel, lifestyle, home arts, beauty, wisdom, relationships, parenting, and fresh looks, which might be at issues, life challenges or popular culture. When reading fiction she wants to be compelled and propelled by urgent storytelling, and hooked by characters. For memoir and femoir, she likes to be transported to a world rarely or newly observed.
Robert Guinsler
Robert Guinsler has been with Sterling Lord Literistic since 2000. His primary interests include literary and commercial fiction, journalism, narrative nonfiction with an emphasis on pop culture, science and current events, memoirs and biographies. Robert's clients include Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, novelists and academics. He has represented such authors as New York Times bestselling author and Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, Adam Bradley, Mark Kurzem, NPR Baghdad bureau chief Quil Lawrence, and Charles London. Robert’s interest in fiction includes literary and commercial fiction, as well as young adult and middle grade.
