Kerry D'Agostino is an active literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., currently open to submissions.
About Kerry D'Agostino
Kerry D’Agostino is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. She represents literary and upmarket fiction, as well as select nonfiction and young adult projects. Her authors include Erin Adams, Leesa Cross-Smith, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, and Liza Wieland. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Columbia Publishing Course.
D’Agostino is drawn to character-driven stories, unconventional plot structures, unreliable narrators, complicated family relationships, and speculative elements that challenge familiar ways of seeing the world.
Kerry D'Agostino — Literary Agent
Submitting Your Work to Kerry D'Agostino
Before querying Kerry D'Agostino
The Market List recommends you verify this agent is still active and open to submissions before sending a query. Check the agency website, recent deal announcements, and any posted guidelines.
To be sure your project is a fit, we recommend you familiarize yourself with Kerry D'Agostino's list by reviewing recently represented titles and the agency's current submission guidelines before querying.
If you have recently queried Kerry D'Agostino or have experience with this agent, please submit a comment below. Recent response times are always welcome and helpful to other writers.
From the Kerry D'Agostino Submission Guidelines:
Curtis Brown, Ltd. represents adult and children’s authors across genres, including illustrators. To submit, choose an agent and follow that agent’s profile for their interests, email address, required materials, and response policy. The agency does not provide one set of sample-page requirements for everyone. Curtis Brown, Ltd.
The agency does not handle stage plays or musicals and is not currently accepting screenplays. If an individual agent accepts postal submissions, include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for a response and return postage if you want your materials back. The page does not state an agency-wide one-agent-at-a-time rule. Curtis Brown charges no reading or editorial fees. Curtis Brown, Ltd.
For Kerry D’Agostino specifically: email a query to kd@cbltd.com and attach either the first 50 manuscript pages or a full nonfiction proposal as a Word document. She reviews submissions within three to four weeks and replies if interested.
Hints
Please email query letters to 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.