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 grew up in London, reading mysteries and historical fiction when I wasn’t reading for school. Before Brown University, I interned at a London literary agency and then started working 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. With an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature, I worked in New York as an assistant at two leading literary agencies (Elaine Markson and Curtis Brown) then I moved on to become the youngest editor at one of New York’s oldest publishing houses, Scribner’s. With chutzpah and passion, I began my eponymous literary agency in 1988. I do realize what good fortune I have had to work with fantastic authors, whose writing educates, clarifies, stimulates, and entertains. I represent a broad range of both fiction and non-fiction, including some books for young adults and children. Nowadays, I am particularly interested in excellent prose by writers whose work makes us feel hope and connects us, whether it’s focused on geopolitics, climate activism, or current affairs, or stories that address people and issues about which we want to and need to know more.
LAUREN SCOVEL
AGENT
I grew up outside of Seattle and graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing as well as Theatre Studies. I began my publishing career as an editorial intern at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth (now part of Aevitas Creative Management). My editorial work can be seen at The Millions and Pangyrus. I also worked as an indie bookseller for several years. I am looking to amplify underrepresented stories and voices, and 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. 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.