Cheryl Pientka

Cheryl Pientka

Nancy Yost Literary Agency
Likely Closed
USA
Updated: 11/10/2025
Agent Bio

Cheryl joined Nancy Yost Literary Agency in 2018 as the director of subrights.

She also represents a select list of clients.

She became a part-time assistant in a literary agency in 1999 (with a side hustle of travel book writing) and has sold domestic, foreign and other subsidiary rights for many NYT and internationally bestselling fiction and non-fiction authors of Young Adult, picture book, middle-grade, and adult audience titles.

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