Ayla Zuraw-Friedland

Ayla Zuraw-Friedland

Frances Goldin Literary Agency
Likely Open
USA
Updated: 9/2/2025
Agent Information
Agent Bio

Ayla Zuraw-Friedland joined the Frances Goldin Literary Agency in 2022 after starting her agenting career at The David Black Agency in 2019.

Previously, she worked as an editorial assistant and assistant editor at Beacon Press in Boston, and as a development editor for encyclopedias at Oxford University Press.

She received her BA in English and Creative Writing from Connecticut College in 2015, and her writing can be found or is forthcoming in The Drift, Excerpts Magazine, GAY the Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and The Cape Cod Poetry Review.

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Genres Information
Genres Represented
Fiction
  • Literary Fiction
  • Queer
Nonfiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Art
  • Queer
  • Technology
Genres Not Represented
None listed or not available
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