The Laura Gross Literary Agency represents award-winning and best-selling authors of both fiction and non-fiction as well as first-time writers. Our small list ensures that each client receives significant personal attention, editorial advice, and guidance throughout the publishing process. We manage all rights—including film, television, audio, and translation—and are represented worldwide by co-agents.
About The Agency
LAURA GROSS
AGENT
I read mysteries, historical fiction, and World War One literature while growing up in London. Before attending Brown University, where I graduated with a degree in Comparative Literature, I interned at a London literary agency and worked for three Members of Parliament, which allowed me amazing access to the government’s innards because security was not a big deal in those days, and I didn’t appear threatening. I read and researched for each Member, one of whom was Shadow Minister of Defense. Post graduation, I worked as an assistant at two New York literary agencies (Elaine Markson and Curtis Brown), then moved on to become the youngest editor at one of New York’s oldest publishing houses, Scribner’s. With chutzpah and intense passion, I began my eponymous literary agency in 1988. I do realize what good fortune I have had to work with fantastic writers, whose work educates, clarifies, stimulates, and entertains. I’ve worked on a fantastic range of literature from literary to general fiction, children’s fiction, translated fiction, biography, narrative non-fiction about climate, politics, international affairs, history, art history, sociology, biography, baseball, and bread. I want to read excellent prose by writers whose work feeds my curiosity whether it’s focused on geopolitics, climate activism, or current affairs, and I love stories set in places foreign to me.
LAUREN SCOVEL
AGENT
I have been with Laura Gross Literary Agency since 2017, where I am proud to represent a diverse list of clients across fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Before agenting, I worked for several years as an independent bookseller. I hold degrees in Writing, Literature, and Publishing and Theatre Studies from Emerson College. Originally from the greater Seattle area, I am now based in Boston. I am looking to amplify underrepresented stories and voices across genres. I am especially interested in literary and upmarket-crossover fiction, narrative nonfiction, and contemporary children’s books (middle grade and young adult) with a timely, distinctive story, propulsive plot, and diverse cast of characters. In adult fiction, I am drawn to projects that are a little off-beat and/or speculative, as well as those aimed at a millennial audience. In narrative nonfiction, I love authors telling a stranger-than-fiction story with a blend of expertise, curiosity, and beautiful writing. For contemporary children’s projects, I am especially interested in LGBTQIA+ and/or STEM subject matter. I am not a great fit for mysteries/thrillers, science fiction/fantasy, historical fiction, women’s fiction, memoirs without a broader research/reportage element, or picture books. To read more about my interests, please visit my Manuscript Wishlist. My list of published client books can also be found on Bookshop.
AMELIA BROWN
RIGHTS DIRECTOR
A lifelong Bostonian, I studied psychology and worked in several research labs before coming to publishing. While pursuing an MFA in fiction at Bennington College, I began my rights career at Charlesbridge, an independent children’s publisher in Watertown, MA. Now, as rights director for LGLA, I work with the agency’s international co-agents to bring our authors’ work into translation around the world.
WILL MORNINGSTAR
AFFILIATE AGENT
A Boston-area native, I studied the anthropology of religion before turning to publishing. I began my editorial career with two magazines at Harvard University and later as an assistant at LGLA. I have several years of experience as a freelance editor for academic and trade publishers, and have also worked as an indie bookseller and film producer. I now spend much of my time as a freelance Spanish-to-English translator. My translations can be found in Two Lines, Strange Horizons, Latin American Literature Today, and the Massachusetts Review. As an affiliate agent, I focus on bringing translated literature into Anglophone markets.
BEN WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATE AT LARGE
I am a writer and the publisher of The Johannesburg Review of Books. I have an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass.