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Ayla Zuraw-Friedland joined the Frances Goldin Literary Agency in 2022 after starting her agenting career at The David Black Agency in 2019. Previously, she worked as an editorial assistant and assistant editor at Beacon Press in Boston, and as a development editor for encyclopedias at Oxford University Press. She received her BA in English and Creative Writing from Connecticut College in 2015, and her writing can be found or is forthcoming in The Drift, Excerpts Magazine, GAY the Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and The Cape Cod Poetry Review. She is interested in literary fiction and nonfiction that inspect big questions about queer identity, class, community, and art & technology through a personal lens. Please note that she does not represent Young Adult, Middle Grade, or Picture Books.
Her current clients include J. Halberstam, Haley Jakobson (Old Enough, Dutton 2023; Cavegirl, Dutton 2023), James Frankie Thomas (Idlewild, Abrams 2023), Jamie Hood (Trauma Plot, Pantheon 2025; how to be a good girl, Grieveland 2020; 2nd edition, Pantheon 2025), Shelly Jay Shore (Rules for Ghosting, Ballantine 2024; Love Me Like a Rock Song, Ballantine 2026).
Examples of books she currently represents:
Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
It's Hard to Be An Animal by Robert Isaacs
Cleanup on Aisle Five by Ann Larson
Learn more at www.goldinlit.com/ayla-zuraw-friedland
Ayla Zuraw-Friedland joined the Frances Goldin Literary Agency in 2022 after starting her agenting career at The David Black Agency in 2019. Previously, she worked as an editorial assistant and assistant editor at Beacon Press in Boston, and as a development editor for encyclopedias at Oxford University Press. She received her BA in English and Creative Writing from Connecticut College in 2015, and her writing can be found or is forthcoming in The Drift, Excerpts Magazine, GAY the Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and The Cape Cod Poetry Review. She is interested in literary fiction and nonfiction that inspect big questions about queer identity, class, community, and art & technology through a personal lens. Please note that she does not represent Young Adult, Middle Grade, or Picture Books.
Her current clients include J. Halberstam, Haley Jakobson (Old Enough, Dutton 2023; Cavegirl, Dutton 2023), James Frankie Thomas (Idlewild, Abrams 2023), Jamie Hood (Trauma Plot, Pantheon 2025; how to be a good girl, Grieveland 2020; 2nd edition, Pantheon 2025), Shelly Jay Shore (Rules for Ghosting, Ballantine 2024; Love Me Like a Rock Song, Ballantine 2026).
Examples of books she currently represents:
Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
It's Hard to Be An Animal by Robert Isaacs
Cleanup on Aisle Five by Ann Larson
Learn more at www.goldinlit.com/ayla-zuraw-friedland