Rayhane Sanders

About the Agent

Rayhane Sanders joined the agency in 2014. She attended NYU and began her publishing career at Newsweek Magazine before moving to book publishing. She worked for Penguin's Dutton and Gotham Books, and then for Wayne Kabak's WSK Management and William Morris Endeavor, where she represented New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors and broadcast journalists. She is a member of the American Association of Literary Agents. She represents and is on the lookout for literary and historical fiction, upmarket book-club fiction, comic novels, short story collections, propulsive narrative nonfiction, essay collections, and memoir. Her authors include Lidia Yuknavitch, Daisy Hernandez, Te-Ping Chen, and Hari Ziyad. She is drawn to projects that are voice-centered and site-specific, whether that be a place, profession, culture, or subculture. While quality of writing is paramount, she is particularly interested in fresh voices telling fresh stories we haven’t heard before and has a fondness for immigrant stories and narratives concerned with race, sexuality, cross-cultural themes, and notions of identity.