Select praise for my clients and their books include: TIME 100 Best Books of the Year; New York Times Editors' Choice; National Book Award "5 Under 35"; Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch; Indie Next Picks; President Obama's Recommended Reading list; GMA Book Club; and finalists for and frequently winners of all major category awards including: the National Book Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, several PEN Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the VCU Cabell First Novel Prize, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, Lambda Literary Award, NYPL Young Lions, Asian Pacific American Award, and the Dylan Thomas Prize. They have been translated into multiple foreign languages and optioned for film and television. You should read them all.
I am a member of AALA. I was named a Poets & Writers Rising Star, a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree, featured in the 2020 Writer's Digest Annual Agent Roundup, and in Poets & Writers' "Agents and Editors Recommend."
I am available for conferences, panels, and MFA visits. I have participated in: The Writers League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference; Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest; Grub Street Muse & the Marketplace; Jericho Writers Agent One-to-One sessions; Westport Writers Workshop; and MFA visits to Brooklyn College, The New School, Lesley University/Cambridge Common Writers, and Bennington.
I have a Substack where I offer publishing and querying advice, called Just Reading All Day.
I live in Brooklyn with several bicycles, a mini aquarium, and an architect.
Hello,
I’m Danielle Bukowski, a literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. I represent award-winning, best-selling, critically-acclaimed authors.
I’m looking for literary fiction, upmarket fiction, genre-bending commercial fiction, SFF and narrative nonfiction. I particularly want to hear from writers traditionally overlooked by the publishing industry, as working on books that represent the world is important to me. My favorite novels balance a unique hook and well-paced plot with strong writing and a distinctive voice; are entertaining and thought-provoking; have a strong sense of place; are stylistically bold; speak to our current moment or are set in a historical moment that resonates with our own. I love unique settings, niche subjects, well-crafted worlds, and characters that readers will have strong feelings about.
My favorite nonfiction books expand my view of the world; provide an unconventional perspective on a conventional topic; are rigorously reported and researched; weave in personal interest; read like a novel.
If some of the above describes your book, please submit using this form: I’d love to read it.
The award-winning, best-selling, critically-acclaimed authors I represent include: Candice Wuehle, Jack Balderrama Morley, Zach Baron, Andrew Boryga, Meg Charlton, Jinwoo Chong, Gina Chung, Megan Cummins, Tembe Denton-Hurst, Krista Diamond, Charlee Dyroff, Toniann Fernandez, Lauren Friedlander, Keziah Frost, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Nick Fuller Googins, Caroline Glenn, Edgar Gomez, Nathan Gower, Mark Haber, Joseph Han, Elizabeth Hand, Stephanie Jimenez, Jane Kalu, Stephen Kearse, Naomi Kritzer, Chia-Chia Lin, Melissa Ludtke, Yasmin Adele Majeed, Nina Michiko Tam, Professor Tom Mole, Benedict Nguyễn, Katherine Packert Burke, Sylvie Perry, Rafe Posey, Katie Prout, Mariam Rahmani, Nicholas Russell, Sara Schonfeld, Katherine Seligman, Bryan Washington, and Olivia Wolfgang-Smith.
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