Stefanie Molina

Looking Glass Literary & Media - Associate Agent

Stefanie joins Looking Glass Literary Agency after spending four years at Ladderbird Literary. Prior to that, she was a technical editor, a senior editor at the literary journal F(r)iction, and a book coach and editor for women of color. She holds B.A.s in English and Communications, both from the University of California at Davis. She is a board member at Literary Agents of Change. Stefanie is currently seeking MG, YA, and Adult fiction and nonfiction, primarily by BIPOC authors. In MG and YA she loves gutsy, messy main characters in a layered narrative--bonus if there are sports, unique hobbies, or world-saving involved. She’s open to all genres in MG and YA, but prefers gutsy contemporary and grounded fantasy, horror, and mystery with a strong sense of adventure (saying ‘gutsy’ twice is not a typo!). In Adult fiction, she’s specifically seeking cozy mysteries, grounded fantasy, and romantic suspense helmed by BIPOC protagonists. In Adult nonfiction, she’s hunting for cookbooks from first, second, third (& so on!) -gen immigrants finding their ways back to their roots, as well as health/fitness-centric, body-neutral cookbooks; and nonfiction that sits at the intersection of advocacy and the following: sports and exercise science, health and fitness, nutrition, medicine, and animals; though any nonfiction intersecting with advocacy is welcome in her inbox. Across the board she appreciates anticolonialism and decolonization; non-Western-centric perspectives (and folklore); and protagonists that disrupt the status quo.