Katherine Latshaw I’m looking for commercial nonfiction: cookbooks; lifestyle; memoir; pop culture; health & wellness; social media-platformed projects; incisive essay collections; illustrated/gift books; feminist and underrepresented voices; select fiction. I am also looking for seasoned collaborators and ghostwriters so send along those resumes! I joined Folio in 2013 after working as an agent at The Literary Group International with Frank Weimann. Prior to that, I worked at packager and literary agency Stonesong, where I participated in every facet of book production, from sales to photo shoots to edits and design. That unique perspective has allowed me to weigh in with authority on behalf of clients during every step of the publishing process. I relish working one on one with authors. For nonfiction, I will often brainstorm with clients who have the requisite knowledge and platform but aren’t sure how to harness that into a saleable concept. I will write, re-write, and edit behind a client to present the best possible pitch to editors. For fiction, my aim is the same, and I will provide whatever is necessary to achieve that result, from general editorial suggestions to line edits. My authors range very widely from celebrities like Burt Reynolds to ice cream sandwich empire Coolhaus to antiracism author Layla Saad. Genres Represented Non-Fiction Cookbook Memoir Narrative Non-Fiction Prescriptive Non-Fiction YA Middle Grade Poetry Ghostwriting Key Titles But Enough About Me by Burt Reynolds Where the Light Gets In by Kimberly William-Paisley As You Wish by Cary Elwes Sissy by Jacob Tobia Please Don't Go Before I Get Better by Madisen Kuhn Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad Whole New You by Tia Mowry How to Submit Please reach out to me with any submissions at klatshaw@foliolit.com Senior Vice President

We are aggressively seeking literary fiction; upmarket adult fiction that’s appropriate for book club discussion; and commercial fiction that features fresh voices and/or memorable characters. Submit to Folio Agents Non-fiction From narrative nonfiction and memoir writers to authors, experts, scholars, and journalists with well-researched, compelling and new ideas, we love authors who are ready and able to promote their work and expertise in all forms of media. Fiction From narrative nonfiction and memoir writers to authors, experts, scholars, and journalists with well-researched, compelling and new ideas, we love authors who are ready and able to promote their work and expertise in all forms of media. Children's How to Submit Review all Folio agents here to find the right agent for your project. Once you have selected the right agent for your project, follow the submission guidelines listed on the individual agent’s page. Please note, some of our agents are currently closed to submissions. Please do not submit simultaneously to more than one Folio Agent. #1 Find the right agent. For Novels: Please wait until you’ve got a completed polished novel to query. Follow our Novel Query Letter Guidelines. For Non-Fiction: All of our agents require a complete non-fiction proposal with a sample chapter. Follow our Non-Fiction Proposal Guidelines. For All Submissions: Be sure that your cover letter, manuscript, and supplemental materials are properly formatted, and the best you think they can be: that means, at a minimum, double-spaced, well-proofed, well-written, and well-presented. #2 Prepare your materials. All of our agents provide details on how to submit queries. Please follow the directions. Please contact us about one project at a time. You may have a drawer full of fabulous yet-to-be-published manuscripts, but only tell us about the one you feel is the most polished, the most ready to go. #3 Contact the agent. #4 Await response. All agents will read your queries as soon as possible. Most Folio agents will respond to let you know of their interest or to inform you of their decision not to pursue representation. If you do not hear back from the individual agent, please understand that the sheer volume of queries can be overwhelming and on occasion, it’s simply not possible to send a personal response declining representation in every case. Generally, if an agent at Folio declines a manuscript, we felt it wasn’t a fit for any of the agents at the agency. That said, if an author feels strongly that another Folio agent should have the chance to review the author’s submission, please let the second agent know that the author has already submitted the project to other agents within Folio.

Ehani Schneiderman Ehani Schneiderman assists Partner Claudia Cross and Agent Dado Derviskadic. In 2022, she received her B.A. in Literary Studies from The New School. She loves stories that explore and redefine what it means to be human. You can often find her reading a book at the nearest beach. Literary Assistant

Dado Derviskadic Dado Derviskadic is a Vice President and Literary Agent at Folio. His authors include Dr. Nicole LePera (How to Do The Work), Dr. Cate Shanahan (Deep Nutrition), Kelly and Juliet Starrett (Built to Move), Matt Alt (Pure Invention), Hiroko Yoda (Eight Million Ways to Happiness), John Birdsall (The Man Who Ate Too Much), Esteban Castillo (Chicano Eats), Naz Deravian (Bottom of the Pot), and many others. After interning with the New York Times in New York and China, he started his career in publishing as a Foreign Rights Director in Beijing, China, in 2009. In this role he acquired English language non-fiction for the growing Chinese market, including major works by Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs), George W. Bush (Decision Points), Henry Kissinger (On China), and many more. Dado reads Chinese, Japanese and Bosnian, and holds a degree from Middlebury College in Chinese film history and Japanese literature. He loves working with writers who have a deep and singular insight into their chosen world. In non-fiction, I am primarily interested in: cultural history; biography; art history; film; religion and spirituality; psychology; philosophy; pop science and motivational self-help; health and nutrition; pop culture and subcultures; fashion; and food narrative and cookbooks. How to Submit Please submit queries to dado@foliolitmanagement.com. Please include the query letter and first ten pages of your manuscript or proposal in the body of the email. Please be sure to write QUERY in the subject line as this will ensure I do not miss your letter. Due to the volume of queries, if you do not hear back from me within four weeks, please assume that the project is not right for me. Literary Agent

Roger Freet Roger represents a wide variety of narrative and idea-driven nonfiction clients in the areas of history, religion/spirituality, politics, personal development, business, and cultural issues by leading scholars, journalists, activists and musicians. A seasoned content creator and project manager, he delights in partnering with clients to develop and expand their mission and message in order to reach the widest possible audience. Roger was an agent at Foundry Literary + Media for five years before joining the Folio team in 2020. Prior to becoming an agent, Roger served as an Executive Editor for a decade at HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. In advance of joining the editorial team at Harper, he was the Associate Director of Marketing and Publicity (from 1999-2004) where he ran bestselling campaigns across the full spectrum of the HarperOne list. Roger works with Bart Ehrman, Diana Butler Bass, Robert P. Jones, Jim Wallis, Eboni K. Williams, Brian McLaren, Jennifer Harvey, James Martin SJ, Candida Moss, Paul Stanley, Doug Brod, Gianno Caldwell, Joan C. Williams, Nick Pollard, Sean Mortimer, John Blake, Amy-Jill Levine, Tripp Fuller, Tiffany Moon, David Viola, Bob Bordone & Joel Salinas, John Philip Newell, and other leading voices. Roger holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, a Business/Economics degree from Westmont College, and is a graduate of the Stanford University Professional Publishing Course. He began his publishing career in 1997 as an envelope-stuffing intern in the publicity department at Princeton University Press. A jazz drummer by training, Roger has played with a variety of jazz, rock and funk groups over the years and is still active in several music projects (acoustic and digital). Publishing the occasional rock star helps perpetuate the satisfying delusion that Roger still has a glorious music career ahead of him. How to Submit I am currently closed to queries. Vice President

Melissa White Melissa White is a vice president, director of international rights, and literary agent at Folio Literary Management. She has represented Folio and placed books in the British Commonwealth and foreign-language markets for over a decade, brokering deals in more than 45 languages, while also representing a select list of clients domestically. Prior to joining Folio, Melissa was an agent at Elizabeth Kaplan Agency. She holds a degree in journalism from Boston University. In the US market, Melissa represents authors of both fiction (including Brooke Beyfuss, Kim Culbertson, Jennifer Longo, and Emily Bliss) and nonfiction (bestselling creativity guru Todd Henry, and family finance expert Kimberly Palmer). She loves stories that explore the human experience and appreciates distinct voices that show different perspectives or illuminate other places and cultures. Some of her favorite authors include Louise Erdrich, Barbara Kingsolver, Emma Straub, J. Courtney Sullivan, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Julia Philips, Rebecca Makkai, Celeste Ng, Tana French, Lisa Jewell, Kate Alice Marshall, and Ruth Ware. In fiction, she’s currently seeking literary, upmarket, and commercial women’s fiction, romcoms, domestic suspense, and thrillers. She’s especially interested in multigenerational stories, sibling relationships, outsider experiences, and stories specific to places or about people fighting injustices or societal circumstances just to survive. In nonfiction, she is looking for commercial projects in pop culture, pop science/psychology, self-help, parenting, memoir, business, lifestyle, and health and wellness. She looks for a strong voice and expertise on a topic, along with an established platform. How to Submit Please send your query letter and (for fiction) the first 10 pages of your manuscript, pasted in the body of your email, to melissa@foliolit.com . Please include the word QUERY and the title of your project in the subject line. Due to the volume of queries I receive, I’m afraid I can only respond to those in which I’m interested. If you don’t hear from me within 30 days, please consider it a pass. Vice President & Director of International Rights

Angela Miller I have spent a lifetime in thrall to books and good writing and I love every new discovery. As a young child I was taught by an older sibling to “read upstream” -- books that challenge. So, I kept my schoolgirl nose in stories, mostly fiction and biographies of interesting women. After the perfunctory BA lit major came an assistant editorship at Oxford University Press working for the editorial director of poetry, philosophy, and mathematics (go ask!) and had the honor of meeting and working with the likes of Conrad Aiken and Seamus Heaney. After editor-in-chief of the trade paperback division at Simon and Schuster for four years, I portaged over to my first agency stint as founder (with Mark McCormack) of IMG Literary, then my own Miller Agency, and later co-founder with Sharon Bowers of Miller Bowers Griffin in 2006. I have represented authors in general non-fiction, biography, narrative and memoir, along with a specialization in food writing, food politics and cookbooks by such bestselling clients as Mark Bittman, Christopher Kimball, Marcus Samuelsson, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Geneen Roth, Darra Goldstein, Matt Rodbard, Eugenia Bone, Rowan Jacobsen, Nathalie Dupree and many others. Lifestyle and food are a passion, in addition to nerdy experts on parenting, psychology, and some memoir – pretty eclectic in other words. Twenty years ago I co-founded a now nationally known creamery and farm in Vermont called Consider Bardwell Farm whose mission dovetailed perfectly with my interest in food and sustainability. I wrote a book entitled HAY FEVER (HMH 2011) about a year in the life of a goat farmer/cheesemaker/literary agent. In joining Folio as an affiliated agent, I will be able to contribute my own strengths and develop more broadly within the publishing and media arts world. Having spent several years editing, I love to work on proposals from concept to sale to the best possible publishers, and I’m always on the prowl for excellent writing. I am looking for new talent as well as established authors and writers with significant platforms. Affiliated Agent

Jess Siegler Director of Media Rights Jess Siegler handles dramatic (i.e., film, TV, theater) rights. He does not accept unsolicited queries and works only with our agency’s clients. Jess is a veteran story development executive, literary scout and writer with over twenty five years of experience helping identify, acquire and develop literary properties for film, television and other media. He began his career in New York, working for New Line Cinema and Alan Pakula Productions, before relocating to Los Angeles, where he lived for 10 years, working as an executive for Warner Brothers, Sony and Disney. While books have always been his primary focus, he has also pursued and developed ideas from original screenplays, pitches, comic books, theater, journalism, sports, and other sources. Jess specializes in identifying great written material, working closely with writers to shape and hone that material, and seeking out the right creative partners to help bring it to the screen. After returning home to New York, Jess worked for Fox Animation Studios (ICE AGE, RIO, HORTON HEARS A WHO) and was an in-house film/TV executive at Scholastic Media for several years, helping develop such iconic kid’s properties as GOOSEBUMPS, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS and CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, among others. In addition to his experience as a development executive, Jess has also worked as a book scout, and has written two original TV pilots for PBS children’s television.