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Jessica Woollard
Jessica Woollard joined The Marsh Agency in January 2006 with her clients as an agent selling directly into the UK and America. She represents authors from all over the world with strong international profiles. India, Japan, Africa and the Middle East are particular areas of interest.
Jessica was previously at Toby Eady Associates for ten years where she worked alongside Alexandra Pringle as an Agent and then Director. Before that she worked for independent television companies and indeed today continues to work with film companies to develop both her authors and their work into television and film. Her degree in English Language and Literature is from the University of Manchester and she has spent considerable time in both France and India, travelling more recently to the Caucasus, Turkey and Cuba on the lookout for new projects.
Jessica likes strong issue based non-fiction, current affairs, politics, environment, narrative non-fiction, natural history, memoir. She represents prize winning authors like Robert Macfarlane, (the Guardian First Book Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award), journalists like Fred Pearce (New Scientist) Olivia Laing (the Observer) and Zahid Hussain (Wall Street Journal, The Times). On the fiction side she represents on the whole literary fiction; Elizabeth Day(the Observer) prize winners like Ben Okri, and some very prominent Asian writers, some in translation, some who write directly into English, including Hitomi Kanehara, Taichi Yamada and Kotaro Isaka.
To submit work to Jessica please go to our submissions page here We do not accept submissions sent by email.
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