Julie Stevenson

About the Agent

JULIE STEVENSON was an agent at Sobel Weber Associates and Waxman Leavell Literary before joining Massie & McQuilkin. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She also worked in the editorial departments of Tin House and Publishers Weekly. She is drawn to fiction with unforgettable characters, an authorial command of voice, and a strong sense of narrative tension. She loves outsiders, weirdos, and innovators. She looks for work that explores the depths of human experience and the many facets of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, and regional backgrounds. Julie loves editing and contemplating craft and storytelling with clients. She takes pride in connecting writers with editors and ultimately with readers. She’s agented books that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the MWA Edgar Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor. She represents literary and upmarket fiction, suspense and thrillers, memoir, narrative nonfiction, and YA.

Represented authors

• Thi Bui
• Ryan Busee
• Isaac Butler
• Jai Chakrabarti
• Susan Daitch
• Kathleen Glasgow
• Nicole Haroutunian
• Joseph Kertes
• Inman Majors
• Shena McAuliffe
• Erin McGill
• Simeon Mills
• Eric Nguyen
• Viet Nguyen
• Que Mai Nguyen Phan
• Nguyen Phan Que Mai
• Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel
• Alanna Schubach
• Sharma Shields
• Jason Zencka