Kate Johnson

An agent with Wolf Literary Services (see other agents at this agency).

About

Kate Johnson is an agent as well as UK rights manager for Wolf Literary Services and the Gillian MacKenzie Agency. Before moving to Wolf Literary, Kate was an agent and Vice President at Georges Borchardt, Inc. She has edited and reported at StoryQuarterly, Bookslut.com, New York Magazine, and elsewhere, and graduated from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Her authors have won the PEN Faulkner Award, Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, Whiting Award, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction, National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35, the Nigeria Prize for Literature, and have been longlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the PEN Open Book Award. Kate regularly visits literary festivals and universities, and has chaired the judging panel for the Bristol Short Story Prize and Bath Short Story Award.
Kate represents literary and upmarket fiction as well as a range of narrative nonfiction and select memoir, and is interested in food, running, obsessives, unconventional families, art, global stories, social justice, mental health, medicine, and the environment. She loves working with journalists. Across all her projects, she looks for authentic voices and books that uncover something off-kilter in the everyday, or conversely something relatable in the extraordinary.

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Statistics Synopsis

Slower: Kate Johnson's overall average response time is slower than most agents.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Young adults. Excluding: Children, Middle grades.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Young adults. Excluding: Children, Middle grades.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Children/Family: See guidelines.
Health/Medicine: General, Mental health.
History: General, See guidelines.
Lifestyle: Cooking, Food and Drink.
Nature/Environment: Environmental issues.
Sexuality/Gender: Women/Female issues.
Sports/Recreation: Running/Track and field.
Travel.
Visual Arts.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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We have received 3 reports from 3 different members within the past 12 months, not including pending responses (see below). The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.

Days Reported

121 min | 165.0 mean avg | 182.0 median | 192 max days (118.7 std dev)

Pending

3 responses are pending (182 min | 282.3 mean avg | 296.0 median | 369 max days waiting | 560.4 std dev) from 3 different members

Other Information

This agent may not respond to all queries. After waiting a reasonable amount of time, assume your submission will not be accepted.
Most recent response reported was received on 07 May 2026.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 06 Jan 2026.
Date compiled: 15 Sep 2026 05:25 UTC (4 hours, 19 minutes ago).

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Last Updated: 20 Jul 2026

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