Melissa Nasson

An agent with Rubin Pfeffer Content, LLC

About

Melissa Nasson has spent her life living in and around Boston, attending college and law school at Boston University (Go Terriers!). While studying at BU Law, she realized that becoming a literary agent would combine her passion for books with her legal background. She interned at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth (now Aevitas Creative Management), East-West Literary Agency, Rubin Pfeffer Content, and Perseus Books Group before starting as contracts director at Beacon Press in 2013. Now, she continues her work at Beacon Press while actively building her picture book, middle-grade, and YA list as a literary agent at Rubin Pfeffer Content. Melissa also launched Literary Lawyer in early 2019, a solo law practice dedicated to assisting authors, agents, and publishers with a variety of legal issues. In spring 2020, Melissa joined the affiliated faculty at Emerson College, teaching Publishing Law in the Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing. Melissa loves dogs, craft beer, playing acoustic guitar, making pickles, tending to her tiny vegetable garden, and her tortoise, Norton. She lives with her husband in Brighton, MA.
Melissa is seeking picture books, middle-grade, and young adult fiction and nonfiction, as well as graphic novels. She is open to all genres, but has a special love for fantasy and science fiction. She enjoys unexpected settings and loves to see manuscripts that bring to light untold stories from history, particularly featuring individuals from marginalized groups. Above all, she wants to see strong, polished writing, fully developed and multifaceted characters, and fresh concepts.

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Audience:

Children, Middle grades, Young adults.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

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

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Audience:

Children, Middle grades, Young adults.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

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

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Last Updated: 07 Aug 2026

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