This event is open to MFA students and Zell Fellows only.

Claudia Ballard is a partner and literary agent at WME. She represents mainly literary fiction, from established short-story writers to debut novelists and beyond, as well as creative nonfiction and journalism. Her clients include Emma Straub, Kiley Reid, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jenna Wortham, Alice Sola Kim, Alexandra Kleeman, Xuan Juliana Wang, Chloé Cooper Jones, Madhuri Vijay and Marie Helene Bertino amongst many others.