Amy Bishop-Wycisk

Literary Agent

Amy Bishop-Wycisk joined Trellis Literary Management in 2023 after eight years with Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. She represents a wide-ranging list in fiction, nonfiction, and YA. Across the board, she has a special interest in underrepresented voices, especially from the AAPI community. In fiction, she’s seeking upmarket and book club fiction (to her, this means a high concept, commercial hook with more upmarket or literary writing), stories with an element of mystery or suspense, and is always looking for a propulsive plot married with beautiful writing. She’s eagerly looking for historical fiction, literary horror, and grounded SFF (she is not the best fit for epic sci-fi or fantasy) written by women of color, coming-of-age-stories, and retellings from around the world. In nonfiction, her tastes trend toward expert-driven narrative nonfiction, cultural criticism, history, and pop culture; regardless of genre, books that are engaging with a contemporary conversation are always of interest. In YA, she’d love books with murder and intrigue, featuring unexpected places and unexpected heroines; more immigrant stories; queer stories; girls quietly (or loudly) working for justice, and of course, a light-hearted contemporary romp to balance out all the murder. Her incredible clients have been NYT, USA Today, and Indie Bestsellers, Indie Next picks, a Reese’s Book Club pick, and winners of the James Beard Award and Edgar Awards.

For a more detailed manuscript wish list, please click here.

Before diving into the world of publishing, she graduated from SUNY Geneseo with degrees in Creative Writing and German. Though she grew up upstate, she currently resides in Woodside, Queens with her sweet husband and very demanding cat.

Amy’s favorite non-client authors (if your work is similar, please reach out!): Parini Shroff, Grace D. Li, R.F. Kuang, Sarah Gailey, Jia Tolentino, Patrick Radden Keefe, Erika Krause, Amanda Montell, Chloe Gong, Stacey Lee.

Amy is currently closed to queries.