Danya Kukafka, Agent, Trellis Literary Management
Danya works as a literary agent for one reason: she loves books. She loves reading books, she loves editing books, she loves the people who write them. She loves the business of publishing, and she comes to both her writing and agenting careers with a sense of dedicated focus. She approaches every novel—her own and her clients’— with a determination to elevate the technical aspects of the story, to edit thoughtfully and carefully until each book shines. For more information about her wishlist and the submission process, please visit trellisliterary.com.
My Clients
My Wishlist
Crime fiction with a literary bent
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
The Secret Place by Tana French
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Dark coming of age
Marlena by Julie Buntin
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
Speculative fiction
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
My Murder by Katie Williams
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Hefty, expansive literary fiction
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Experimental work:
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Into the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Fun and sophisticated upmarket fiction
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
True crime/nonfiction
The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino