Claudia Ballard is currently active and is a partner and literary agent at WME Books. She is currently open to submissions.
About Claudia Ballard
Claudia Ballard is a partner and literary agent at WME Books, where she has worked since 2008 and has been a partner since 2016. She represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including novelists, short-story writers, memoirists, journalists, and cultural critics. Her clients include bestselling and award-winning writers such as Curtis Sittenfeld, Emma Straub, Kiley Reid, Marie-Helene Bertino, Halle Butler, Ben Shattuck, and Zach Williams.
Ballard is particularly interested in writing with an imaginative and distinctive voice, strong narrative momentum, emotional depth, and memorable characters. She is drawn to stories about families and relationships and appreciates both joyful and darker forms of humor. In nonfiction, she represents memoir, journalism, cultural criticism, and other narrative work that offers readers a fresh way of understanding people, places, or contemporary life.
She is currently accepting queries by email. Writers should send a query letter only, include a brief author bio, and do not attach sample material unless requested.
Claudia Ballard — Literary Agent
Before querying Claudia Ballard
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Submitting Your Work to Claudia Ballard
WME Books accepts unsolicited queries and welcomes submissions from first-time authors. Writers should choose a specific agent from the agency’s “Our Team” page, review that agent’s preferred query format, and submit through the query button on the agent’s profile.
Writers should query only one WME agent at a time. If there is no response within six weeks, they may submit to another agent in the department. Because of the volume of submissions, WME cannot respond to every query. The agency does not consider or represent screenplays, and all submissions are subject to WME’s published submission terms and conditions.