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WE’RE SORRY, THIS AGENT MEETING IS SOLD OUT! PLEASE PUT YOUR NAME ON THE WAITLIST IN CASE A SPOT OPENS UP.
MEET AN AGENT at StoryStudio’s 2025 Pub Crawl
NOTE: This add-on MUST be purchased with an all-access ticket to Pub Crawl.
Miriam Altshuler (DeFiore Literary) began her career at Russell & Volkening and in 1994 established her own agency, which she ran for twenty-one years until she joined DeFiore in 2016. She focuses primarily on literary and book club fiction, narrative nonfiction, and children’s literature. Among the novelists she represents are Jill Santopolo, (NY Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost), Elizabeth Rosner, Jenny Fran Davis (Dykette), B.S.Shapiro (NY Times best selling author of The Art Forger ), Jennifer Murphy, and the late Robb Forman Dew. Her nonfiction authors include Leila Philip (author of Beaverland), Maya Lang (author of the New York Times Editors’ Pick What We Carry: A Memoir), Andrew Carroll (bestselling author of War Letters), Adina Hoffman (winner of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize), Dr. Sue Johnson (clinical psychologist and bestselling author of Hold Me Tight and Love Sense), Harriet Brown, and Phil Zuckerman. Miriam also represents authors of middle grade and young adult literature, including National Book Award Finalist Leslie Connor, Lambda Award winner Alex Sanchez, and the late Walter Dean Myers, who served as the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Miriam is particularly interested in finding emerging and underrepresented voices, and she loves reading and representing books that focus on diversity and explore the experiences of people of color.
Miriam Altshuler’s meetings will be scheduled on Friday 2/21 Monday 2/24 in the afternoon.
- 10 minute meeting
- Agents/editors will offer verbal feedback on 1 page query + first 3 pages of manuscript
(Meeting dates and times are subject to change. If you would like, in the notes section at checkout please list your preferred meeting day and we will do our best to schedule you accordingly. We cannot make any guarantees your first choice will be honored, depending on availability.)