Stefanie Molina-Santos is a literary agent with Looking Glass Literary.

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 middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction & 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 mysteries (cozy or not), thrillers, suspense, fantasy (grounded and/or cozy, no epic), and high-concept, plot-heavy romance a la Beth O’Leary, with a strong preference for BIPOC protagonists overall.

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.