Kristy Hunter

After finishing undergrad at Vanderbilt University, Kristy moved to NYC to attend the Columbia Publishing Course and pursue a career in publishing. She started as an editorial intern at Bloomsbury Children’s Books and then went on to work in publicity at Grove/Atlantic and Random House Children’s Books. She has now been with The Knight Agency for well over a decade (which is hard to believe that time has flown so quickly!). She loves championing new voices and feels incredibly lucky to work with authors.

At this time, Kristy is only taking on YA and adult clients. She loves strong writing, compelling hooks, distinct voices, and is always passionate about representing underrepresented voices.

For YA, Kristy open to almost all genres but always loves fantasy (cozy, grounded, romantasy), contemporaries, thrillers, historical projects with a modern sensibility, sweeping atmospheric tales, mysteries/ heists, and genre bending projects.

For adult, Kristy is looking for Romantasy, grounded fantasy, and general book club fiction (which could be thrillers, contemporaries, speculative fiction, or historical). She also is a huge fan of genre-bending projects. She is looking for the type of projects that have a unique hook, propulsive writing, and will appeal to a wide commercial audience (the type of manuscript that once you’ve finished, you can’t wait to discuss with someone else). She also loves unique narrative styles and unexpected narrators such as in Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt and The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.

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