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Emily Mitchell
Wernick & Pratt Agency LLC – Literary Agent
https://wernickpratt.com/
Emily Mitchell lives in Massachusetts because of Anastasia Krupnik: after reading the eponymous classic dozens of times as a child, she got it in her head that going to college in Massachusetts was something she should do, so she did. Emily began her career at Sheldon Fogelman Agency, handling submissions, subsidiary rights, and coffee. She then spent eleven years at Charlesbridge Publishing as senior editor, contracts manager, and director of corporate strategy. Emily represents both authors and illustrators from picture books to YA, including Maia Kobabe, author/illustrator of GENDER QUEER (Lion Forge/Oni Press); Caron Levis, author of IDA, ALWAYS (Atheneum) and THIS WAY, CHARLIE (Abrams); Traci Sorell, author of WE ARE STILL HERE (Charlesbridge) and AT THE MOUNTAIN’S BASE (Kokila/PRH); Van G. Garrett, author of KICKS and JUNETEENTH (Versify); and Richard Ho, author of YEAR OF THE CAT (Greenwillow) and THE LOST PACKAGE (Roaring Brook). At Charlesbridge her books included A Mother’s Journey by Sandra Markle, illustrated by Alan Marks (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book) and Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin (a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist and winner of the Sydney Taylor Jewish Book Award). Emily holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard, a master’s in secondary English education from Syracuse, and an MBA from Babson. She lives outside Boston. Emily is accepting new clients in all genres for children.