Literary Agent Elizabeth Sheinkman on Accompanying Award Winning Writers

Elizabeth Sheinkman joins Stephanie to chat about how she went from turning her passion for reading and writing into her profession of being a Literary Agent. Elizabeth is a native New Yorker whose publishing career has spanned both sides of the Atlantic. She worked within the US editorial department of Oxford University Press and Alfred A. Knopf before joining the Elaine Markson Literary Agency in 1996. In 2004, she moved to London to set up and run their UK office before joining Curtis Brown in 2006 as a Senior Agent and Director, where she continued to represent the Markson Agency in the UK and further develop her own list. In 2012, she moved to WME, representing a broad range of award-winning and best-selling authors, including works of literary fiction, biography, journalism and cultural history. Elizabeth is on the Creative Council of the Aspen Institute’s Summer Words Festival; has served on the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont; and has been a featured speaker at the University of East Anglia MFA writing program, the Oxford Summer Books Program, and Trinity College Dublin.Elizabeth can be found working at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop.Your Story Matters! You Matter! Role Models Matter! Lead By Example To Support Others! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.