Dana Murphy

Dana Murphy

Trellis Literary Management
Likely Open
USA
Updated: 6/6/2026
Agent Bio

Dana Murphy joined Trellis Literary Management in 2022, after a decade building her list at The Book Group.

She represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction for adult and select fiction for teen readers.

Across genre, Dana falls in love at the story and line-level simultaneously.

She's always searching for language and plot that move in equal measure, one in constant support of the other.

Dana is most drawn to writing that aims to transform the reader, disrupt hegemony, and center community.

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