Danya Kukafka a is a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized study, and the author of the novel Girl in Snow. She began her publishing career at Riverhead Books as an acquiring assistant editor, where she worked with authors like Meg Wolitzer, Paula Hawkins, Lauren Groff, Brit Bennett, Emma Straub, Gabriel Tallent, Helen Oyeyemi, Maile Meloy, Sigrid Nunez, and many, many more. Released in 2017, her debut novel Girl in Snow was a national bestseller. She is interested literary fiction with particularly propulsive storylines. She is seeking literary suspense, sophisticated thrillers, speculative fiction, and experimental fiction she also loves true crime that feels attuned to today’s cultural conversations, as well as upmarket literary fiction you can read in one gulp. Submission Guidelines Please submit using the form on the Aevitas website. Guidelines & Details Vital Info @danyakukafka Website Agent
Fiction
Commercial, Crime, Family Saga, General, Horror, Humor, LGBTQ, Literary, Mystery, New Adult, Thriller, Women’s Fiction, Young Adult
Non-Fiction
Crafts/DIY, Journalism, LGBTQ, Memoir, True Crime I’d like the next… My favorites include… Here are a few books I wish I could represent: Crime fiction with a literary bent My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Dare Me by Megan Abbott The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner The Secret Place by Tana French Miracle Creek by Angie Kim Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips Dark coming of age Marlena by Julie Buntin History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Speculative fiction The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Hefty, expansive literary fiction The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Experimental work
Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill Into the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Citizen by Claudia Rankine Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday Fun and sophisticated upmarket fiction Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Normal People by Sally Rooney The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer All Adults Here by Emma Straub True crime/nonfiction The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino