Adriana Dominguez

Adriana Dominguez represents award-winning illustrators including John Parra, a New York Times Best Illustrator and recipient of three Pura Belpré Honors, Pura Belpré Award winner Marcelo Verdad, Kirkus Prize finalist Jacqueline Alcántara, and Orbis Pictus Honor recipient Juliet Menéndez. Her author list includes NAACP Image Award winner Katheryn Russell Brown, Pura Belpré Honor recipient Angela Cervantes and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.

Adriana has wide-ranging experience in publishing; she began her editorial career at Scholastic in the 1990s, served as Children’s Reviews Editor at Críticas Magazine (Library Journal), and as Executive Editor at HarperCollins, where she led the children’s division of the Latinx-focused Rayo imprint. She is a member of Women’s Media Group (WMG) and the Association of American of Literary Agents (AALA). She is a Board member of the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival, where she sits on the Organizing Committee for the LKBF Latinx Storyteller Conference. She is also an award-winning translator.

Adriana has a long trajectory of supporting authors and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds and always welcomes submissions that offer a diverse point of view. She is interested in illustrators with fresh, unmistakable styles, platform-driven narrative nonfiction from children to adult, and select children’s fiction from picture books to middle grade. She is based in New York.

Country of Publication

United States

Professional Associations

Member of AALA

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