Women's historical fiction focusing on non-Ashkenazi Jewish cultures, particularly Sephardic, Mizrachi, and Beta Israel (Ethiopian) Jews.
All other submissions; closed except specified category.
Marilyn Biderman is a Partner and senior literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. She joined in 2017, closing her firm Marilyn Biderman Literary Management established in 2010, after serving as vice-president of rights and contracts at McClelland & Stewart where she sold works by authors like Leonard Cohen, Alistair MacLeod, Anne Michaels, and Madeleine Thien. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She seeks literary fiction, accessible literary fiction, mysteries, thrillers, women’s commercial and historical fiction, unique memoirs, narrative non-fiction, expert non-fiction from authors with social media platforms, and biographies. She does not handle children’s books (except select YA by referral), poetry, screenplays, sci-fi, paranormal, or fantasy for adults.
Submissions should be emailed to [email protected]. Currently closed to queries except for one narrow category: women's historical fiction about Sephardic, Mizrachi, and Beta Israel (Ethiopian) Jews (anything non-Ashkenazi).
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