Emily Keyes
Keyes Agency
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Updated: 2/17/2026
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Emily S Keyes founded Keyes Agency LLC in 2021 after work at Fuse Literary, the L Perkins Agency (as contracts manager and associate agent), and five years as Contracts Administrator at Simon & Schuster.
A graduate of New York University’s Center for Publishing (2008), she has represented many award‑winning titles, mainly in children’s literature, and focuses on finding and nurturing new talent.
Emily actively searches for all kinds of children’s literature and select adult genre fiction (not “serious” literature), seeking authors and illustrators for long careers.
She lives in Brooklyn and spends a lot of time on the internet.
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