Julie Stevenson is an agent at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin in New York. She is drawn to fiction with unforgettable characters, an authorial command of voice, and a strong sense of narrative tension. She looks for work that explores the depths of human experience and the many facets of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, and regional backgrounds. Stevenson loves editing and contemplating craft and storytelling with clients. She takes pride in connecting writers with editors and ultimately with readers. She's agented books that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the MWA Edgar Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence. She represents upmarket fiction, suspense and thrillers, memoir, narrative nonfiction, young adult and children's books. Stevenson received her bachelor's degree in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and her M.F.A in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She worked in the editorial departments of Tin House and Publishers Weekly. Before joining Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, she was an agent at Sobel Weber Associates and Waxman Leavell Literary. Some of the books she's represented include: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, published by Grove Press, The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac by Sharma Shields, published by Holt, Speed Dreaming: Stories by Nicole Haroutunian, published by Little A, The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir by Susan Daitch, published by City Lights, and Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow, published by Delacorte. A few forthcoming novels she represents are The Afterlife of Stars by Joseph Kertes, published by Little Brown, I Do Not Like Al's Hat published by Greenwillow, and White Lead by Susan Daitch, published by Alibi/Random House.