Rachel Letofsky

An agent with Transatlantic Agency (see other agents at this agency).

About

Rachel Letofsky has been working in publishing since 2010 and started building her list as a literary agent in 2013. She represents bestselling and award-winning authors such as Cherie Dimaline, Danny Ramadan, Ivan Coyote, Jessica Johns, and Vivek Shraya, and is the agent for the ground-breaking anthology Never Whistle at Night, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore Van Alst Jr., which has been on the Indie Bestseller list since its publication in September 2023 and sold over 100,000 copies in North America.
Rachel’s clients have been nominated for, and won, such prestigious prizes as the Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award, the Giller Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General’s Awards, the OLA’s Forest of Tree Awards, the Writer’s Trust Awards, the Trillium Awards, the BC Book Awards, CBC’s Canada Reads, the Sunburst Award, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, the Pink Triangle Awards, and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Awards.
Rachel loves working with diverse voices and authors who follow their hearts in pursuit of their art, which leads her to represent books across many genres and categories, from literary, commercial, upmarket fiction and narrative-driven non-fiction to graphic novels, YA, middle-grade, poetry, and some picture books. She works with her clients in a focused and hands-on manner and truly loves discovering and championing debut authors.
Rachel is always seeking fiction that breaks her heart, and non-fiction that blows her mind.
Rachel travels extensively for pleasure and work, and attends many publishing events, conferences, fairs and festivals where she teaches classes, sits on panels, acts as a judge for literary competitions, and is consulted as a publishing expert. Rachel is currently on the board as secretary for PACLA (the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents), a position she has served in for four years, and she is a member of the AALA (the American Association of Literary Agents).
A Canadian by birth, Rachel currently resides in the Oregon where she loves spending time with her family, the drizzly rainy weather, swimming in the ocean, hiking in the woods, Pilates, cooking and reading in “the comfy chair” with her three cats (when they aren’t plotting their way into the fish tank).

Country & Year Established

Canada

Agent since 2013

Professional Associations

Member of PACLA

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She is especially drawn to literary fiction (historical, thriller, speculative, family sagas), commercial or upmarket fiction (thriller, mystery, SFF, dark academia, horror), funny or whimsical fiction for middle-grade readers, contemporary or speculative fiction for YA readers.

Audience:

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

Genres:

Open to all/most Genres, including:
General Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Historical
Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres
Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres
Science Fiction Open to all/most Subgenres
Suspense/Thriller Open to all/most Subgenres

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

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

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.

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She is especially drawn to narrative-driven non-fiction across categories, with a soft-spot for memoir, true-crime, historical, and accessible science-driven books about discoveries and the natural world from experts in their field.

Audience:

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

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

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

Topics:

History.
Memoir.
Nature/Environment.
Science.
Society/Culture: Crime.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.

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Last Updated: 15 Aug 2026

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