Matt McGowan
Frances Goldin Literary Agency
Likely Open
Updated: 9/1/2025
Agent Information
Agent Bio
Matt is looking for emotionally, intellectually, and formally adventurous work of all kinds and is particularly interested in writers who believe nonfiction can be as artful as fiction.
Matt was featured in Poets & Writers‘ “Twenty-One Agents You Should Know”.
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Genres Information
Genres Represented
Fiction
- Literary Fiction
Nonfiction
- Nonfiction
- Biography
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Investigative Journalism
- Memoirs
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Politics
- Pop Culture
- Satire
- Science
- Sports
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Frances Goldin Literary Agency
The Frances Goldin Literary Agency has been the leading progressive agency in New York since it was established by Frances Goldin in 1977. We represent work in many genres, from literary and speculative fiction to investigative journalism, graphic novels to literary essays, history and sociology to memoir and biography.
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