Stephanie Abou

Stephanie Abou

Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents
Likely Closed
USA
Updated: 9/18/2025
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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