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Marya Spence

An agent with Janklow & Nesbit Associates (see other agents at this agency).

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Raised in California’s Bay Area, Marya earned her B.A. at Harvard, where she majored in English and was Fiction Editor for the Advocate, and her MFA at New York University, where she also taught undergraduate creative writing. In her 20s, she worked as a waitress and a nanny, at a bank and at a flower shop, before eventually reviewing books for Publisher’s Weekly and working at The New Yorker, PAPER Mag, Travel & Leisure, Vanity Fair, METROPOLIS Magazine, and more.
Marya values craft from the writer’s perspective and seeks books that anchor urgent conversations. She represents a diverse range of titles in fiction and narrative nonfiction, including, but not limited to, literary novels, cultural criticism, voice-driven essays with a humorous or critical edge, and pop culture writing. Marya’s authors have become instant New York Times bestsellers and won numerous awards and distinctions, such as the PEN Ackerley Prize, the Windham Campbell Prize, the California Book Award for First Fiction, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and numerous ASME Awards. They have been awarded fellowships and grants from such committees as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wallace Stegner Foundation, the Investigation Fund at the Nation Institute, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and more. They have also been finalists or listed for such honors as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, the Women’s Prize, the James Beard Media Award, the NPR Best Book, the Oprah Magazine Best Book, the San Francisco Public Library Award, The Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and more.
She lives in New York City.

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Country

United States

Fiction Open

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:
General General
Lengths:
Fiction Collection Fiction Collection
Novel 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.


Nonfiction Open

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:
Nonfiction Collection Nonfiction Collection
Book Book
Styles:

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

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics, including: Society/Culture (General, Current events, Pop culture, Social issues).

Submissions:

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


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AccuracyWe 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 Reported180 min | 211.3 mean avg | 190.0 median | 264 max days (45.9 std dev)
Pending2 responses are pending (35 min | 108.0 mean avg | 108.0 median | 181 max days waiting | 103.2 std dev) from 2 different members This only includes pending reports from users who have been active on Duotrope within the past 30 days

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Dates

Last Updated: 04 Oct 2024
Last Audited: 04 Oct 2024. (We audit each active listing twice a year. Learn more at link.)
Date Added: 10 May 2018

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