Yesterday FinePrint Literary Management announced that author and publishing veteran Marissa Walsh will now serve as a literary agent at the agency. She will concentrate on children’s picture books, middle-grade and YA.
Walsh is the author two books, the memoir Girl with Glasses: My Optic History and the YA novel A Field Guide to High School. In the past, she has worked at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, the Ellen Levine Literary Agency, and seven years at Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books. In addition, she now teaches Children’s Writing and Creative Writing 101 at Gotham Writers’ Workshop.
Follow this link to find out how to query Walsh. Here’s more from the release: “She has worked as a bookseller at Mobile Libris, an independent bookseller for special events, and currently teaches Children’s Writing and Creative Writing 101 at Gotham Writers’ Workshop. In addition to her interest in children’s books, Walsh will be looking for pop culture, humor, narrative non-fiction, and memoir.”