Sarah has been an agent with Levine Greenberg Rostan since 2016. She reads most types of literary and upmarket commercial fiction, especially works that show powerful imagination, revelatory character arcs, compulsive plotting and unpredictable points of view illustrating timeless themes. Emotional, inventive stories told through nuances of motherhood, human connection or feminist issues, novels with light speculative elements, and darker narratives with can’t-look-away tension tend to be her favorites, particularly those set in wild, unexpected places. She loves anything that highlights nature or the environment in some fashion, especially in extremes. Sarah does not typically represent fantasy or sci-fi, but is fascinated by grounded approaches to what might be off about our world. She is looking for voices that need to be heard.

Hailing from North Carolina, Sarah graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a double major in Psychology and English. She taught eleventh grade English in the Bronx for several years before starting her publishing career at Crown and Hogarth. One of her first authors there went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and Man Booker International Prize. As an agent, her authors frequently receive awards and honors, including the Edgar Award for Best Debut, the James Beard Award, the Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honors, multiple titles have been on New York Times Editors’ Choice, NPR Best Books of the Year, and Indie Next Pick lists, nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Center for Fiction Prize, Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, have been USA Today Bestsellers and picked up in film and TV options from major studios.

It’s impossible to list all, but a few of her favorite authors are Shirley Jackson, Gabriel García Márquez, Victor Hugo, Emily St. John Mandel, Erin Morgenstern, Haruki Murakami, Sarah Waters, and Madeleine L’Engle. Some favorite recent reads from her spare time have been BLACK CAKE, THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY, LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, and THE NEED.