Martha Wydysh

Martha Wydysh

Trident Media Group
Likely Open
USA
Updated: 8/27/2025
Agent Bio

Martha Wydysh entered publishing a decade ago, starting in subsidiary rights at ICM before joining Trident in 2016 to manage magazine rights and assist Ellen Levine.

She is building a list focused on literary and upmarket fiction (including short fiction, linked collections, speculative and satirical work) and select narrative nonfiction, cultural criticism, and literary memoir, places clients’ short fiction and essays in top magazines, and is a Cornell and Columbia Publishing Course graduate who lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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