Agent - Educator - Speaker

My name is Desiree, and I'm a literary agent, public speaker, and publishing educator. I was born and raised in the Nevada desert in the company of just about every book I could get my hands on. After a handful of non-publishing lives—including a short stint in the Army, working on an ambulance as an EMT, and almost a decade as a 911 dispatcher—I relocated to the strange, damp quarter of the Pacific Northwest. I received degrees in Book Publishing and Comic Studies from Portland State University, where I now teach publishing myself.

While pursuing my degrees, I held multiple internships and staff roles with a number of companies, including Kickstarter, Dark Horse Comics, Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, and Counterpoint Press. I am also the former acquisitions editor at Ooligan Press and was an editor at Oni Press, where I managed over 30 titles. I joined The Bent Agency in 2020, and began building my client list with a primary focus on horror, fantasy, sci-fi, speculative fiction, and graphic novels from underrepresented voices. You can read more about my submission guidelines and what I'm looking for on my manuscript wishlist.