Rica Allannic

About the Agent

Rica Allannic joined David Black Literary Agency in 2017 after a sixteen-year career as a nonfiction editor. A graduate of New York City public schools and Yale University, Rica worked in professional kitchens before joining the editorial team at Scribner (Simon & Schuster) and then moving on to Clarkson Potter (Penguin Random House), where, as Vice President and Executive Editor, she acquired and edited cookbooks, narrative nonfiction, and gift books. Rica brings her love of food and everything French as well as her Puerto Rican heritage to her role as a literary agent and uses her unique editorial experience to help clients shape their projects and to advocate for them at every stage of the publishing process. She is interested in cooking, narrative and prescriptive nonfiction, popular culture, history, and science projects, as well as in helping authors from diverse backgrounds tell stories that are important to them.