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Janet Silver represents a roster of bestselling and award-winning authors of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Her stellar clients include Cheryl Strayed, author of the international bestsellers Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things; Anthony Marra, award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and the story collection The Tsar of Love and Techno; Monique Truong, winner of the Asian American Literary Award for The Book of Salt; and Safiya Sinclair, Whiting Award winner of the poetry collection Cannibal and the forthcoming How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir.

Janet also proudly represents Michigan MFA graduates Hanna Pylväinen, winner of a Whiting Award for the story collection We Sinners, and Menachem Kaiser, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure. Janet has the privilege of including among her clients Michael Byers and Linda Gregerson, and she was previously Peter Ho Davies’ long-time editor.

Janet brings in-depth knowledge of the publishing industry and extensive editorial experience to her work as an agent. Before joining Aevitas, she was Publisher at the former Houghton Mifflin Company, where she worked with such renowned authors as Philip Roth, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tim O’Brien, and Jonathan Safran Foer.