Wendi Gu

About the Agent

Before joining the HG Literary team in 2024, Wendi Gu was a literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates and Janklow & Nesbit. When she first moved to New York, she didn’t plan on going into children’s books — she wanted to work with serious adult literary fiction — but thanksto her great mentors and good luck she ended up working with authors and illustrators of books for young people. Today, Wendi’s author and illustrator clients have won the Caldecott Honor, Asian/Pacific American Library Award, the Stonewall Honor, Sydney Taylor Award, Geisel Honor, Governor General Literary Award, and Horn Book Award. They have also been nominated for the NAACP Image Award and made finalists for the Ezra Jack Keats Award. Her clients books have been New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestsellers. Wendi is from Chicago and studied English and Anthropology at Northwestern University. In her free time she plays piano (and still reads serious adult literary fiction — but for fun!). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and a dog named Beanie Gu.

Represented authors

• Max Amato
• Aidan Cassie
• David Catrow
• Hanna Cha
• Molly Coxe
• Jami Gigot
• Jyoti Gopal
• Lisa Katzenberger
• Sophia N. Lee
• Jay Leslie
• Julie Leung
• Dane Liu
• Ashley Lukashevsky
• Breanna J. McDaniel
• Liz Montague
• Stephanie Pearmain
• Terisa Siagatonu
• A.K. Small
• Jess X. Snow
• Jack Wong
• Toni Yuly
• Qing Zhuang