Christina Clifford is a recent addition to the Union Literary team, having worked for many years as an agent at Melanie Jackson Agency where she represented several award-winning authors and found US homes for the works of international authors. A lifelong New Yorker and lover of the written word, Christina is looking for both seasoned authors and new voices in fiction and nonfiction. She specializes in literary fiction and has a soft spot in her heart for international fiction hailing from the homeland of authors like William Trevor, Edna O’Brien, and Zadie Smith, not to mention Rohinton Mistry, Mario Vargas Llosa and J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer. She is also interested in continuing to build a narrative nonfiction list in the genres of historical biography, memoir, business, and science. She has three children and lives in New York City. You can contact her at christina@unionliterary.com.
Trena Keating represents a range of talented authors across fiction and nonfiction, including novelists, journalists, celebrities, and experts writing for a popular audience such as professors, doctors, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Her list is a balance of #1 NYT bestsellers and debuts; Trena takes equal pleasure in working with masters of the craft and promising new talent. She manages complicated estates, works with multi-platform authors, develops writers in mid-career, and introduces new voices to the book world. Prior to becoming an agent, Trena was Editor-in-Chief of Dutton and Associate Publisher of Plume, both imprints of Penguin, Senior Editor at HarperCollins, and humanities assistant at Stanford University Press and has had the honor to work with such esteemed, award-winning, and bestselling writers such as E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates. She has appeared as a publishing expert on television. In both fiction and nonfiction, Trena is always looking for authors with creative, cutting edge ideas, well-crafted prose, and strong voices, with a particular interest in outsiders’ perspectives that propel readers beyond their own experiences. Authors Trena doesn’t represent, but has recently loved reading, include Peter Attia, Katherine May, Zadie Smith, Ann Patchett, James McBride, and Rachel Cusk. She can be reached at tk@unionliterary.com.
Sally Wofford-Girand has worked with such luminaries as Salman Rushdie, Grace Paley, Kim Edwards, and Alice Hoffman as the foreign rights director at a boutique literary agency. Her particular areas of interest are: history, memoir, women’s issues, cultural studies, and, most of all, fiction that is both literary and gripping. Favorite authors include Cormac McCarthy, Kate Atkinson, Jennifer Egan, Elizabeth Strout, Anne Patchett, John Green, Jose Saramago, and Wallace Stegner. She is a hands-on agent with a passion for great storytelling. She loves the thrill of discovery in working with debut novelists. Sally is on the board of AAR and a board member of Writers Omi, an international writers colony in New York State. You can contact her at swg@unionliterary.com.