Marya Spence
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Likely Open
Updated: 9/17/2025
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Raised in California’s Bay Area, Marya earned her BA at Harvard, where she majored in English and was Fiction Editor for the Advocate, and her MFA at New York University, where she also taught undergraduate creative writing.
In her 20s, she worked as a waitress and a nanny, at a bank and at a flower shop, before eventually reviewing books for Publisher’s Weekly and working at The New Yorker, PAPER Mag, Travel & Leisure, Vanity Fair, METROPOLIS Magazine, and more.
Marya values craft from the writer’s perspective and seeks books that immerse, critique, delight, or illuminate.
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