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Mary Krienke
Sterling Lord Literistic
Likely Open

Updated: 9/23/2025
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Mary represents literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction, and select prescriptive and illustrated projects, favoring work that is fierce, inventive, and emotionally honest.
She seeks fiction that uses genre elements—surreal, slightly askew, or supernatural—to illuminate a shifting world, and nonfiction that investigates culture, identity, sexuality, disability, mental health, and our relationships to one another and the material and unseen worlds.
She received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.
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Clients
- Kavita Bedford
- Betsy Bonner
- Emily Boring
- Katherine Brabon
- Stacy Austin Egan
- Kristine S. Ervin
- Kimberly Olson Fakih
- Gina Fiore
- Jon Lackman
- Shelby Lorman
- Vyshali Manivannan
- Zack Pinson
- Ashlee Piper
- Rachel Pollak (estate)
- Betty Shamieh
- Yana Tallon-Hicks
- Sharon Sochil Washington
- Ellen O’Connell Whittet
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