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While she is perhaps best known for her representation of picture book writers, she is currently looking to balance her list with more fiction for middle-graders and young adults and is especially seeking novels that celebrate unlikely underdog alliances, close siblings/fierce friendships/found families, and queer and BIPOC community and joy. In middle-grade, she’s hungry for cozy, emotionally resonant fantasy and literary-leaning multi-layered mysteries. In YA, she’s hoping to find sweeping fantasy set in fully realized unique worlds, especially those inspired by non-European cultures, as well as thrillers with strong hooks. She is open to well-researched, propulsive narrative nonfiction for MG and YA. In all categories, she looks especially for authors from marginalized communities, and as you might expect from someone who has focused so much on picture book texts, she most appreciates writing in which every word counts, attention has been given to making it work on multiple levels at once, and she is effortlessly engrossed in the world on the page. She is also open to bringing on select author-illustrators whose visual voice is clear and unique and whose writing is as strong as their art.