Wendi Gu

About the Agent

Wendi Gu joined HG Literary in 2024. Previously, she was a literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates and Janklow & Nesbit. When Wendi first moved to New York, she intended to work with serious adult literary fiction. However, thanks to her mentors and good luck, she found her passion 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.