Rica Allannic
David Black Literary Agency
Likely Open
Updated: 9/28/2025
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Rica Allannic joined the agency in 2017 after sixteen years as a nonfiction editor at Scribner and Clarkson Potter, where she rose to Vice President and Executive Editor and worked with high-profile culinary authors.
A Yale graduate who cooked professionally before publishing, she brings a passion for food, French culture, and her Puerto Rican heritage to her agenting and focuses on cooking, narrative and prescriptive nonfiction, popular culture, history, science, sports, and select memoir.
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- Mimi Thorisson
- David Chang
- Christina Tosi
- Luke Barr
- Ina Garten
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