Abby Walters joined the David Black Literary Agency in 2026 after nearly a decade of experience in book publishing and talent representation at Creative Artists Agency. Since her promotion to literary agent in 2020, her authors have appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists and received Read with Jenna, Barnes & Noble Discover, and Indie Next picks, as well as starred reviews in Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.

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At David Black, Abby is focused on representing upmarket and literary fiction and is most interested in novels that privilege voice and psychological depth. She is especially eager for character-driven narratives centered on flawed, searching people at moments of rupture — the burgeoning or aftermath of love, the reckoning of ambition, the slow unraveling of identity. She is interested in novels that feel intimate and precise, but that open outward: stories rooted in interiority that nonetheless speak to larger social, cultural, or moral questions or hot-button issues. She is particularly compelled by books that examine desire, power, class, addiction, creativity, and self-mythologizing and appreciates a strong sense of place (especially settings outside of the United States) and narrative momentum. She is also drawn to women’s fiction that is either witty and confident or soapy with a compelling scandal at the center.​​