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Send a Query to Maggie Cooper of Aevitas Creative Management

I'm open to queries the first week of every month, in the hope of making sure I can give everyone's work the attention it merits.

WHO I AM: I've been with Aevitas Creative Management since 2018, representing adult fiction and select nonfiction projects. Based in Boston, I hold a degree in English from Yale University, attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, and earned my MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where I served as an editor for The Greensboro Review. Prior to becoming an agent, I worked in the world of independent and university presses, as a bookseller, and as a teacher to students ages 10 through 85. As a queer white woman, I'm committed to working collaboratively with queer, BIPOC, and disabled writers, as well as writers from other communities typically underrepresented in mainstream publishing, in order to make all our voices heard.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR: I'm seeking imaginative, genre-bending literary fiction; beautifully told queer stories; and smart, feminist vacation reads. I love retellings of classic stories, epistolary novels, and well-earned happy endings. I don't typically work on "hard" science fiction and fantasy, although I'm drawn to stories that blend the realist and speculative in the traditions of magical realism, fabulism, or otherwise—and right now, I'm very open to seeing cozy or quirky fantasy, especially if it overlaps with my other interests. I'm particularly attracted to structural innovation, language that makes the reader pause over its peculiar specificity, and books that make our world a weirder, kinder, and/or more joyful place.

In nonfiction, I'm looking for graphic projects with a literary sensibility, self-aware creative nonfiction, and projects with a quirky, joyful, or humorous bent. Across genres, I'm always interested in food, literary culture, gender, sustainability and climate crisis, social justice, schools and education, and projects that engage our current cultural moment, whether directly or slantwise.

Some of my favorite fiction writers include Lesley Nneka Arimah, Sarah Waters, Clare Beams, Jasmine Guillory, Curtis Sittenfeld, Lindsay Drager, and Kelly Link.

WHAT I TYPICALLY DON'T REPRESENT: thrillers; SFF; true crime; memoirs without a researched, reported, or critical element; or book projects focused on experiences with substance use. With very few exceptions, I don't represent children's or YA, so if you're writing primarily for younger readers, you should not query me.

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You can learn more about me and about Aevitas here: https://aevitascreative.com/agents/
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I have a Bookshop list of published and forthcoming client books here: https://bookshop.org/shop/frecklywench

And if you like pictures of baked goods and bad puns, you can follow me on Twitter here (for now?!): https://twitter.com/frecklywench and Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/frecklywench.bsky.social

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