Stephanie Abou

About the Agent

STÉPHANIE ABOU — agent (joined 2015) — hails from France, where she worked for fashion magazines while finishing her degree in comparative literature from the Sorbonne, thinking she would pursue a career in journalism. Upon arriving in NYC in the late 1990’s she landed an internship at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which convinced her to make a career out of her passion for literature. Starting at The Joy Harris Literary Agency, and most recently at Foundry Literary + Media, she has developed a dual career as a foreign rights director and a domestic agent. Multi-lingual and multi-cultured, she particularly enjoys works that celebrate the resilience of the human spirit while also depicting the experience of “the other.” She specializes in character-driven fiction, memoirs, crime fiction, and narrative nonfiction. She enjoys a close editorial rapport with her authors, and believes that strong writing must be put in the service of great storytelling to birth a successful book.

Represented authors

• Jenna Blum
• Chelsea Haywood
• Kylie Ladd
• Randy Susan Meyers
• Dominique Mocean
• Dominique Moceanu
• Marco Rafala
• Jane Roper
• Francesca Segrè
• Julie Wu