Erin Harris is an active literary agent at Folio Literary Management, currently open to submissions.
About Erin Harris
Erin Harris is a Senior Vice President and literary agent at Folio Literary Management, where she represents adult and young adult books. A graduate of the New School’s MFA program in creative writing, she works editorially with authors before submitting their projects to publishers. Her Folio Jr. clients include Katie Bayerl, Kit Frick, Emiko Jean, and Marie Marquardt.
Harris represents literary and upmarket fiction, book club fiction, select narrative nonfiction, and young adult fiction. She is currently seeking YA contemporary, suspense and thrillers, and stories with speculative elements. In adult fiction, she has expressed particular interest in thought-provoking book club novels with grounded speculative ideas or inventive combinations of genres.
Erin Harris — Literary Agent
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Email a query letter and the first 10 manuscript pages pasted into the body of the email to eharris@foliolitmanagement.com.
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Her Current Wishlist Includes:
For YA, Harris explicitly seeks contemporary stories, thrillers and suspense, and fiction with speculative elements.
For adult book club fiction, she has described an interest in emotionally engaging novels with grounded speculative premises and in surprising blends of genres.
She typically does not work in romance or romantasy as categories.