Kerry D’Agostino

Kerry D’Agostino

Kerry D’Agostino is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. She represents literary and upmarket fiction, and her authors include novelists Erin Adams, Andrea Bobotis, Leesa Cross-Smith, Nancy Wayson Dinan, Micah Dean Hicks, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, Leslie Pietrzyk and Liza Wieland. Kerry also represents select nonfiction and YA. She is particularly drawn to character-driven work, unconventional plot structures, unreliable narrators, complicated family relationships, and speculative elements that challenge our ways of thinking about the world. Kerry is a graduate of Bowdoin College, Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Columbia Publishing Course. She currently serves as Co-Vice President on the Board of Directors for the Association of American Literary Agents, where she is also a member of the organization’s Programming Committee. Kerry is also a member of Curtis Brown’s Inclusion & Accountability Committee. She lives in Saratoga Springs, NY with her husband, daughter and two cats.

Please email query letters to Kerry at kd@cbltd.com and include either the first fifty pages of your manuscript or your full proposal in an attachment as a Word document. Kerry reviews all submissions within three to four weeks and will respond if she is interested in seeing more.