Faye Bender

About the Agent

With a focus on strong collaborative working relationships with her authors, Faye represents fiction for readers aged eight to adult. Her authors have won numerous awards and honors, including the Newbery Medal, the Schneider Family Book Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, the Indies Choice Book of the Year Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, and the International Latino Book Award, and have been finalists for the National Book Award and the Impac Dublin Literary Award. Her clients' books have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Book Review Notable Books, and selected for Best Books of the Year lists by Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, School Library Journal, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the American Library Association, and the New York Public Library, among others. Faye is always excited to work with authors with a strong narrative voice and unique perspective and she works with her authors for the length and breadth of their careers. Born and raised in Denver, Faye lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Represented authors

• Natalie C. Anderson
• Angeline Boulley
• Kristin Cashore
• Bennett Davlin
• Lizzie K. Foley
• Maurene Goo
• Ariel Gore
• Nicole Helget
• Michelle Hodkin
• Erin McCahan
• Liane Moriarty
• Karen Romano Young
• Rebecca Stead
• Francisco Stork
• Courtney Summers