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Maggie Cooper

Aevitas Creative Management

United States

Open to Queriesquery_managerAAR Member
Submission GuidelinesWebsite
Manuscript Wish List (MSWL)

Looking For

Beautifully written queer stories, genre-bending literary fiction, smart feminist vacation reads, quirky romance, and crossover fantasy.

Not Looking For

YA or children’s books; thrillers; true crime; memoirs without a researched, reported, or critical element.

Themes & Elements

queer storiesgenre-bendingfeminist vacation readsquirky romancecrossover fantasyfoodlanguageculturequeernesswell earned happy endingsunderrepresented charactersstructural innovationpeculiar specificityweirder worldkinder worldjoyful worldsustainabilityclimate crisissocial justiceschools and educationcurrent cultural moment

Tone & Style

quirkyjoyfulhumoroussmartfeminist
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About

Maggie Cooper has been an agent with Aevitas Creative Management since 2018, representing adult fiction and nonfiction that makes our world weirder, kinder, more joyful, or all three. Based in Boston, she holds a degree in English from Yale University, attended the Clarion Writers Workshop, and earned an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as an editor for The Greensboro Review.

Submission Guidelines
Format: query_manager
Submission Page: https://querymanager.com/query/cooper
Guidelines:

I'm open to queries on Query Manager the first week of every month.

Notable Clients
  • A Modern Girl's Guide to Love and Divorce
  • Fandom Forever (and Ever)
  • A Little Buzzed
  • Unflattering: the Radical New Way to Get Dressed
  • How to Hope
  • Romancelandia
  • Dear Baker
  • My Body Created a Human
  • Educate, Affirm, Include, and Interrupt: Creating Inclusive Spaces Where Transgender Students Thrive
  • Work to Do
  • Rita Did: Rita Mae Brown's Life of Provocation
  • The Jewel of Corlivo
  • The Story of Your Life
  • Wild that We're Alive: Momboy, vol. 1
  • I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself
  • Perverts
  • Poetry is Not a Luxury
  • A Home For Tomorrow: New Perspectives On Communal Living
  • What We Leave Behind
  • Zoë Bossiere
  • Emma Ahlqvist
  • Elizabeth Ho
  • David Mitchell
Notable Sales
  • BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Bertino
  • IDLEWILD by James Frankie Thomas
  • WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG by Kelly Link
  • A MARVELOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske
  • THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY by Megan Bannen
  • MUTUAL INTEREST by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
  • THE NEW LIFE by Tom Crewe
  • Cactus Country (Zoë Bossiere)
  • My Body Created a Human (Emma Ahlqvist, forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press)
  • Dear Baker (Elizabeth Ho, forthcoming from Penguin Canada)

Social

Twitter / X@@frecklywench

Sources

MSWL ProfilePersonal Website

Last verified: March 31, 2026

Audience

Adult

Genres

Literary Fiction
Commercial Fiction
Romance
Contemporary RomanceHistorical Romance
Short Stories
Memoir / Autobiography
Narrative Nonfiction
Food / Cookbooks
Humor / Essay Collections
Arts / Music / Film / Pop Culture
Pop Culture

Focus Areas

underrepresented voicesBIPOCsocial justicequeerdisabled writersclimate crisisfoodstructural innovationquirkyjoyfulhumorousgendersustainability

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