Morgan Wu

I am an assistant editor at Little, Brown, where I acquire literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. I am most interested in works that explore complex, unconventional relationships and characters, human psychology, and underrepresented voices, and I have a soft spot for literary horror and speculative fiction. Authors I have had the pleasure of working with include Plestia Alaqad, Zaina Arafat, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Congressman James Clyburn, Jimin Han, Sam Kean, Kristen Kish, Mark Leyner, Youngmi Mayer, Stuart Pennebaker, James Risen, Kim Stanley Robinson, and former U.S. ambassador to Russia John J. Sullivan. Prior to joining Little, Brown, I spent several years working in clinical psychology and the nonprofit world. I began my publishing career as an intern at Grove/Atlantic.

As a side effect of my former career, I’m especially drawn to books with rich psychological exploration or unconventional, complex interpersonal relationships—what I call “psychological X-rays” of their characters. I also love projects that explore LGBTQ+ themes, motherhood and daughterhood, and POC stories.

Within fiction, I am looking for:

1. literary fiction with a genre bent, particularly speculative fiction and literary horror, such as Bunny by Mona Awad, A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, and The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley; and
2. accessible literary fiction with rich characters, such as The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue, Vladimir by Julia May Jonas, The Idiot by Elif Batuman, Assembly by Natasha Brown, and Writers & Lovers by Lily King.

Within nonfiction, I am looking for authors with a strong point of view who are the right people to tell their chosen story, as in The Eyes of Gaza by Plestia Alaqad. I am also drawn to works with beautiful writing, a big hook, and psychological themes, as in What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo, Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller, and Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker; and the macabre, as in Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell, and Ghostland by Colin Dickey.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be emailed to morgan.wu@hbgusa.com

Agented submissions only, please.