I am currently the Publisher of ABC Books at HarperCollins Australia. This role combines the journalistic nous of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with the oldest book publisher in Australia. I lead their non-fiction list, publishing books both by ABC broadcasters and other experts around Australia on topics that align with their audience—current affairs, narrative history, biography, science, indigenous issues, the whole gamut. (I also commission books for the HarperCollins list, too.)
From 2020 to mid 2022 I was a literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management in New York. Among our authors are three winners of the Pulitzer Prize as well as winners of The National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and more. I represented nonfiction books about emerging science and technology, futurism, design, culture, and the arts. I also focused on supporting underrepresented voices, especially those within the disability community. During my time as an agent I am proud to have sold $2.8 million dollars worth of books, changing the courses of my clients’ careers.
Before and after agenting, I was a freelance book editor and collaborator. I specialised in working with non-writers and subject-matter experts, being their book doula and helping them summarise their research and ideas for pop audiences. Though I mostly edited nonfiction books in the science, tech, and social history realms, my lifestyle background meant I was always up for projects bubbling in the cultural zeitgeist, too. Two books I edited went on to be New York Times and Wall Street Journal best sellers.
Here are some of the books I have worked on:
RADICAL TRAUMA HEALING: A TRANSFORMATIVE PROGRAM FOR THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY AND BEYOND
by somatic therapist Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik
an accessible guide to helping marginalised communities heal from trauma, rooted in the neurobiology of how trauma impacts the nervous system, as well as attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and parts work, with Penguin Life in 2024
#FEELS: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR EMOTIONS FOR THE BETTER
by emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak
an uplifting guide to the ways that technology is changing how and what we feel, as well as making us more emotional intelligent, with Hachette’s Algonquin in 2024
MARSHA: THE BEAUTY AND DEVIANCE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON
by filmmaker, artist, and scholar Tourmaline
the first biography of the legendary Black trans-rights activist who kicked off the LGBTQ liberation movement, with Penguin’s Tiny Reparations in 2024
DRINKING DOM PERIGNON THROUGH A STRAW
by disability advocate and aspiring astronaut Eddie Ndopu
a memoir about his life as a queer, Black wheelchair user, from his childhood in post-Apartheid South Africa to rolling the hallways of Davos and trajectory towards the stratosphere, with Hachette’s Legacy Lit in 2023
HOW TO FIND A FOUR LEAF CLOVER: WHAT AUTISM CAN TEACH US ABOUT DIFFERENCE, CONNECTION, AND BELONGING
by Love on the Spectrum star Jodi Rogers
a series of vignettes drawn from three decades as a disability sexologist that will illuminate the neurology of neurodivergence, with Hachette’s Little Brown in 2023
RETHINKING INTELLIGENCE: A RADICAL NEW UNDERSTANDING
OF OUR HUMAN POTENTIAL
by sociogeneticist Dr. Rina Bliss
an accessible exploration of the genetics of intelligence, which shares insights from the booming science of epigenetics to help us harness our environments to empower our minds, with Harper Collins’ Harper Wave in 2023
SENSITIVE: THE HIDDEN POWER OF THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSON IN A LOUD, FAST, TOO-MUCH WORLD
by Introvert, Dear and Highly Sensitive Refuge founders Jenn Granneman and Andre Solo a manifesto on the science of sensitivity, which will do for sensitive people what Susan Cain’s QUIET did for introverts, with Random House’s Harmony in 2023
AMPHIBIAN
by memoirist Tyler Wetherall
a fiction novel about prepubescent sexuality, in which a young girl becomes stuck in an imaginary, magic-realism-tinged world between child and woman, with Virago in 2024
WE ARE ELECTRIC: THE NEW SCIENCE OF OUR BODY’S ELECTROME
by science and technology journalist Sally Adee
a pop-science deep-dive into “bioelectricity,” the revived branch of biology that studies the natural electricity that surges through our bodies, positing the ways the world will change if we learn how to manipulate it, with Hachette’s Hachette Books in 2023
TO DYE FOR: HOW TOXIC FASHION IS MAKING YOU SICK
by sustainable fashion journalist Alden Wicker
an exposé on the chemicals used to make our clothing and the destructive impact they're having on our bodies, with Penguin’s Putnam in 2023
OUTRAGE MACHINE: HOW TECH AMPLIFIES DISCONTENT, DISRUPTS DEMOCRACY—AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT
by technology ethicist and designer Tobias Rose-Stockwell
a post-truth manifesto on the deleterious effects of social media on society and democracy, with Hachette’s Hachette Books in 2023
HOW TO MEASURE A DAY: OVERCOMING PRODUCTIVITY GUILT
by Extraordinary Routines founder Madeleine Dore
a guide to relinquishing routines and tearing down the scaffolding of your day, with Penguin’s Avery in 2022
MAKE NO SMALL PLANS: LESSONS ON THINKING BIG, CHASING DREAMS, AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
by the founders of Summit Series
a business memoir written about the founding of one of the world’s most successful leadership conferences, tracing their unconventional journey from meandering 20-somethings to White House party-throwers, with Random House’s Crown in 2022
SUPERSIGHT: WHAT AUGMENTED REALITY MEANS FOR OUR LIVES, OUR WORK, AND THE WAY WE IMAGINE THE FUTURE
by MIT Media Lab professor David Rose
a crystal-ball-gazing book on the upcoming advances in AR and computer vision, revealing how tech companies are racing to radically change the way we see, with Benbella in 2021
THE MESSY MIDDLE: FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE HARDEST AND MOST CRUCIAL PART OF ANY BOLD VENTURE
by Adobe EVP and Behance founder Scott Belsky
an entrepreneurial guide to navigating the volatility of new ventures and leading innovative creative projects, with Penguin’s Portfolio in 2018
THE KINFOLK HOME
by the creators of Kinfolk, the seminal lifestyle magazine
a coffee-table book exploring the living spaces of 35 families whose interior design and architectural choices embody their desires to live slow, purposeful lives, with Workman in 2015