Sarah Smith began her publishing career in 2008 working for Algonquin Books in Chapel Hill, NC as an editorial intern. Soon thereafter, she moved to New York City to work at Trident Media Group as an assistant in the literary and book-to-film departments. She joined the David Black Agency in 2012. 

 

Sarah represents a wide list of critically acclaimed and commercially successful authors, including New York Times best-selling and award-winning nonfiction. She is interested in books that teach readers something new or offer a novel perspective, in particular in the space of food and drink, health/medicine/ wellness, narrative nonfiction, personal finance/business, memoir, essays, and cultural criticism. She loves working with experts in their fields and is always interested in projects that concern pop culture, art/design/music, and the cultural zeitgeist. In addition, Sarah represents a number of collaborative writers who partner with authors on cookbooks, memoir, leadership books, and more. 

 

A native of Atlanta, Sarah has a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors. For three years, Sarah curated the weekly True Story: Nonfiction at KGB reading series at KGB Bar in the East Village. She lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn. 

 

Sarah is not accepting unsolicited queries at this time