Triangle House Literary is a boutique literary agency founded in 2019 in partnership with the literary community at Triangle House. Our clients have won the PEN Bingham Award, been listed for NYPL Young Lions 5 Under 35, The Center For Fiction First Novel Prize, The PEN Jean Stein Award, The Oregon Book Award, The Kirkus Prize, The Edgar Awards, LAMBDA Awards, and the Believer Book Award and been named books of the year by The New York Times and NPR, among other honors.
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Monika Woods is a literary agent, writer, editor, and founder of Triangle House. She is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo and the Columbia Publishing Course, a board member of the AALA, and has worked closely with leading voices in contemporary literature over her decade-long publishing career. Her interests include literary fiction and compelling non-fiction in cultural criticism, food, popular culture, journalism, science, and current affairs.
Monika is particularly excited about plot-driven literary novels, non-fiction that is creatively critical, unique perspectives, a great cookbook, and above all, original prose.
She lives in Brooklyn and Springs, NY with her husband and son.
To query Monika, please send a query letter describing your projects and the first ten pages of your manuscript in the body of the email.
Renée Jarvis is an agent at Triangle House Literary. Born and raised in New York City, she graduated from Brooklyn College with a BFA in Creative Writing. She previously worked as an assistant and agent at MacKenzie Wolf Literary and spent two years as a writing teacher at the non-profit organization Legal Outreach.
Renée is seeking narrative nonfiction, adult speculative, upmarket, and literary fiction, and children’s books. She is looking for works that center POC and LGBTQIA+ voices and is particularly drawn to the work of Black writers across the African diaspora. In nonfiction, she is interested in pop culture analysis, cultural histories, linguistics, food writing, international stories, and explorations of music, fashion, and art. In fiction, she loves robust plots, bold characters with a sense of humor, unique formats, stories that explore friendship and family, and lyrical prose.
To query Renée, please send a query letter, synopsis, and the first 30 pages of your manuscript or your full proposal through this form.
Kima Jones is the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, a Los Angeles-based book publicity agency for black and brown writers, where, for five years, she worked as lead strategist on all publicity campaigns. In 2017, Kima founded the Jack Jones Literary Arts retreat—a two-week respite and book incubator for black and brown nonbinary and women writers. The Los Angeles Times called Kima "2018's literary breakthrough" and "an important new voice on the national stage." In 2019, Kima founded Culture, Too—a mentorship conference for black and brown cultural critics. In the spring of 2021, Kima Jones joined Triangle House Literary as an agent where she is interested in representing literary fiction, essay collections, memoir, hybrid texts, commercial fiction, poetry, speculative fiction, science fiction, and horror. She brings more than a decade of marketing and publicity experience into her agenting negotiations. To query Kima at Triangle House Literary, please follow the submissions directions via QueryManager, which include the first ten pages of your manuscript. She will respond if she’s interested in seeing more.
Noah Grey Rosenzweig grew up in New Jersey before moving to D.C. in 2017 and graduating from Georgetown University. He was previously a literary assistant at Ross Yoon Agency, and just completed the editorial fellowship with Grove Atlantic and Roxane Gay Books.
Noah is interested in representing both fiction and non-fiction. He is a reader of all fiction but has a particular love for literary, climate, and speculative fiction, as well as the occasional YA novel. He has an eye out for stories that hold up a mirror to our culture in new ways, and he's especially interested in queer and trans coming-of-age fiction, particularly told from a horror perspective.
They are also looking for narrative non-fiction that chronicles recent history, cultural trends, technology, and social rules that explain why and how we live in our current world. Above all, Noah is looking for work that is subversive — in prose, style, or subject.
Noah is currently open to queries.
Emma Dries is a writer and editor, and an agent at Triangle House Literary. She has worked on bestselling and award-winning books in editorial at Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday Books, Ecco, and Flatiron Books. She has a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago and an M.F.A in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University. She grew up in Lower Manhattan, above the Fulton Fish Market, and now lives in the Hudson Valley.
Emma is interested in literary fiction that grapples with climate change; ambitious multigenerational novels or family sagas; speculative fiction; literary thrillers; and dark or darkly comic domestic fiction. Authors she loves include Eleanor Catton, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jesmyn Ward, Barbara Kingsolver, David Mitchell, Lily King, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Lydia Millet, Jenny Offil, and Dan Chaon.
Emma is also seeking narrative nonfiction, longform journalism, essays and academic crossover. She is interested in climate, environment, institutional corruption, big idea books and object histories. She likes to work with academic writers with great narrative sensibilities, such as historians who can target an understudied era and spin an incredible yarn. She looking for personal narrative and memoir only insofar as it has a strong analytic or journalistic angle. Authors she loves include Kerry Howley, Eula Biss, Amitov Ghosh, Robert Macfarlane, Jesmyn Ward (again), Naomi Klein, and Anna Tsing.
To query Emma, email emma@triangle.house with a query letter and first 20 pages (or, if applicable, the full proposal) in the body of an email. Please include QUERY in your subject line. While she aims to respond to all queries, if you haven’t heard from her in 12 weeks, please assume your project is not a fit.
Foreign rights are handled by Claire Roberts at Claire Roberts Global Literary Management. (info@clairerobertsglobal.com)
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