Ashley Lopez is a literary agent with Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents. She received her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and has over a decade of publishing experience. Formerly the director of foreign rights and an agent at WLA Books, she has worked on international and New York Times bestsellers. She is a member of AALA. Ashley loves writers who aren't afraid to raise the stakes and smart people sharing their obsessions. She represents literary and book club fiction, grounded speculative, horror, thrillers, narrative and practical nonfiction, as well as select poetry and YA.
Examples of books she currently represents:
Appetite by P. Paramita, What I Made for Dinner by Krys Malcolm Belc, Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Ashley is looking for:
Ashley loves writers who aren't afraid to raise the stakes and smart people sharing their obsessions. She represents literary and book club fiction, grounded speculative, horror, thrillers, narrative and practical nonfiction, as well as select poetry and YA.
Ashley is not looking for:
Ashley isn't looking for romantasy, fantasy, or science fiction. If it has a dragon or a space station in it, it's probably not a project for her.
Learn more at www.ashley-lopez.com
Ashley Lopez is a literary agent with Massie McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents. She received her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and has over a decade of publishing experience. Formerly the director of foreign rights and an agent at WLA Books, she has worked on international and New York Times bestsellers. She is a member of AALA. Ashley loves writers who aren't afraid to raise the stakes and smart people sharing their obsessions. She represents literary and book club fiction, grounded speculative, horror, thrillers, narrative and practical nonfiction, as well as select poetry and YA.
Examples of books she currently represents:
Appetite by P. Paramita, What I Made for Dinner by Krys Malcolm Belc, Like Happiness by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Ashley is looking for:
Ashley loves writers who aren't afraid to raise the stakes and smart people sharing their obsessions. She represents literary and book club fiction, grounded speculative, horror, thrillers, narrative and practical nonfiction, as well as select poetry and YA.
Ashley is not looking for:
Ashley isn't looking for romantasy, fantasy, or science fiction. If it has a dragon or a space station in it, it's probably not a project for her.
Learn more at www.ashley-lopez.com