Stephanie Delman

Stephanie Delman spent 10 years building her list at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates before co-founding Trellis Literary Management in the fall of 2021. Stephanie is focused on adult fiction: stylish writing, high-stakes and high-concept literary thrillers, upmarket fiction, sweeping and underrepresented historical fiction, emotionally resonant fiction that tussles with the human condition, psychologically propulsive suspense, maximalist storytelling (in ambition, not in word count), and literary novels that play with genre. Her clients include New York Times and international bestsellers, GMA Book Club, Read With Jenna, and Book of the Month picks, National Endowment for the Arts, Tin House, and Kundiman fellows, Rona Jaffe and Harper Lee award winners, Barnes & Noble Discover authors, and more.

Stephanie loves books that are “many things at once”—books that span genres and take risks. She is also seeking projects that use gothic traditions or speculative elements to upend narrative conventions. For projects that reach beyond the darkness, Stephanie is drawn to tenderness, yearning, and humor.

Stephanie studied Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and considers herself a “hands-on” agent, both editorially and as an advocate. She was raised in Northern California and has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the past fifteen years. Before building her own list, Stephanie worked in foreign rights at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates and as an assistant to the president, where she helped broker international deals across 50+ foreign languages. 

Stephanie's favorite non-client authors (if your work is similar, please get in touch!): Alexander Chee, Maggie Shipstead, Liz Moore, Carmen Maria Machado, Rebecca Makkai, Lauren Groff, Brit Bennett, Emily St. John Mandel.

Please note: Stephanie does not represent children’s books, YA, high fantasy, hard sci-fi, prescriptive, academic, or religious nonfiction.