Samantha Haywood
Transatlantic Literary Agency
Likely Open
Updated: 11/4/2025
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After working in International Rights at Random House of Canada and Westwood Creative Artists, Samantha Haywood launched her client list with Transatlantic Agency in 2004 and has been President since 2017.
She has nearly two decades in international publishing and ~10 years running Transatlantic Agency, specializing in managing authors’ careers across book and film/TV with a global mandate, represents novelists, memoirists, investigative journalists, graphic novelists and thought leaders, handles international rights for Drawn & Quarterly, and is a founding member and former President of PACLA.
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- Khaled Hosseini
- Iain Reid
- Canisia Lubrin
- Jesse Thistle
- Emma Knight
- Marissa Stapley
- Zoe Whittall
- Catherine Hernandez
- Kevin Chong
- Shani Mootoo
- Jen Sookfong Lee
- Susan Swan
- Amanda Leduc
- Kai Thomas
- Samra Habib
- Chelene Knight
- Megan Gail Coles
- Martha Baillie
- Amy Stuart
- Eliza Reid
- Liann Zhang
- Tom Ryan
- Elinor Florence
- Joanna Goodman
- Elizabeth Renzetti
- Kate Hilton
- Elisabeth de Mariaffi
- Clara Hughes
- Kevin Donovan
- Robin Ha
- A.S.A Harrison (Estate)
- Jean Teillet
- Samra Zafar
- Plum Johnson
- Angela Sterritt
- Prince Shakur
- Rowan Jetté Knox
- Brandi Morin
- Rachel Giese
- Stacey May Fowles
- Emily Urquhart
- Ani Castillo
- Arizona O’Neill
- Scott Chantler
- Sarah Leavitt
- Alexander Forbes
- Kris Bertin
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