Danya Kukafka
Aevitas Creative Management
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Danya Kukafka a is a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized study, and the author of the novel Girl in Snow. She began her publishing career at Riverhead Books as an acquiring assistant editor, where she worked with authors like Meg Wolitzer, Paula Hawkins, Lauren Groff, Brit Bennett, Emma Straub, Gabriel Tallent, Helen Oyeyemi, Maile Meloy, Sigrid Nunez, and many, many more. Released in 2017, her debut novel Girl in Snow was a national bestseller.
She is interested literary fiction with particularly propulsive storylines. She is seeking literary suspense, sophisticated thrillers, speculative fiction, and experimental fiction—she also loves true crime that feels attuned to today’s cultural conversations, as well as upmarket literary fiction you can read in one gulp.
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Vital Info
I’d like the next…
My favorites include…
Here are a few books I wish I could represent:
Crime fiction with a literary bent
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
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
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
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Hefty, expansive literary fiction
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Experimental work:
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
