Stephanie Abou
Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents
Likely Closed
Updated: 9/18/2025
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Stephanie joined the agency in 2015 after working for fashion magazines in France while finishing a degree in comparative literature from the Sorbonne.
Upon arriving in NYC in the late 1990s she interned at Farrar Straus and Giroux and began a publishing career.
She started at The Joy Harris Literary Agency and most recently worked at Foundry Literary + Media and developed a dual career as a foreign rights director and a domestic agent.
She is multi lingual and multi cultured and specializes in character driven fiction memoirs crime fiction and narrative nonfiction.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
Nonfiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
- Crime
- Literary Fiction
- Middle Grade
- Upmarket Fiction
- Young Adult
Nonfiction
- Memoirs
- Middle Grade
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Young Adult
Genres Not Represented
None listed or not available
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About Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents
Agency Profile
MASSIE McQUILKIN & ALTMAN is a full-service literary agency that focuses on bringing fiction and non-fiction of quality to the largest possible audience. We work closely with our clients at every stage of a project’s development, submission, and placement—staying involved in all issues of design, publicity and sales, long after the ink has dried on a contract, to ensure that the author’s needs are being met by their publisher.
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