Frances Goldin (AAR), President & Principal

The Frances Goldin Agency celebrated its 30th year in 2007. Frances envisioned a different kind of agency--one which specialized in literary fiction and serious, controversial, progressive non-fiction. Believing "a better world is possible," it was her goal to get books published that would speed that process. She considers herself very lucky to have no dichotomy between her radical politics and her working life.

Email: fg(at)goldinlit.com


Ellen Geiger (AAR), Vice President & Senior Agent

Ellen Geiger is a 25-year veteran of the publishing, film and television industries, and represents a diverse range of authors of literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction. Representative works in nonfiction include The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, by Joel Bakan, The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever by Molly Caldwell Crosby, Gringos in Paradise by Barry Golson, Kabul in Winter by Ann Jones, The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam by Jennifer Heath, The God of Old by Harvard biblical scholar James L. Kugel, and If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War, a memoir by Rita Williams. In fiction, recent works include We'll Always Have Parrots by multiple award-winner Donna Andrews, The Saddlemaker's Wife by Agatha winner Earlene Fowler, The Sunday List of Dreams by bestseller Kris Radish, and Snow Blind by the Anthony and Gumshoe Award-winning mother/daughter team P.J. Tracy.

She is also proud to represent the interests of the late children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, whose iconic works include Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.

She is especially interested in cutting-edge issues, progressive politics, memoir, narrative nonfiction, women's issues, popular culture, religion, science, and history.

She is a past president of New York Women in Film and Television and is a member of the Women's Media Group.

Email: eg(at)goldinlit.com


Sam Stoloff (AAR), Vice-President & Senior Agent

Sam joined the Agency in 1997. He has an MFA in creative writing and a Ph.D in American Studies, both from Cornell University. He handles literary fiction, memoir, history, accessible sociology and philosophy, cultural studies, serious journalism, and narrative and topical nonfiction which have a progressive orientation.

Among his clients are Monika Bauerlein, Susan Bordo, Pratap Chatterjee, Daniel Duane, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Bruce Grierson, Jean Harfenist, Deborah Harkness, Kristin Henderson, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Anna Lappe, Eleanor Lerman, Stephanie Mencimer, Rutu Modan, Carla Peterson, Janisse Ray, Gretchen Reynolds, and Siva Vaidhyanathan.

Email: ss(at)goldinlit.com


Matt McGowan (AAR), Rights Director, Agent

Matt has worked in publishing since 1994, joining the Frances Goldin Agency in 2001, after stints at McIntosh & Otis, Fromm International, St. Martin's Press, and Abbeville Press. He is looking for emotionally, intellectually, and formally adventurous work of all kinds and is particularly interested in writers who believe nonfiction can be as artful as fiction. Among his clients are Eula Biss, Dave Bledin, Dan Crane (aka Bjorn Turoque), John D'Agata, Brian Evenson, Dale Hrabi, and Jamie Trecker. In 2008 he was featured in Poets & Writers' "Twenty-One Agents You Should Know." His clients have won or been shortlisted for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, The New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O. Henry Award, the Graywolf Literary Nonfiction Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Rona Jaffe Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. As rights director, he also handles foreign, film and television, audio, and first serial rights for all the agency's titles.

Email: mm(at)goldinlit.com


Sarah Bridgins, Office Manager/Assistant

The newest member of the agency, Sarah joined us in 2008. Sarah is a graduate of the Communications program at NYU and recently came to the agency after having spent the last two years as a Subsidiary Rights Assistant at Penguin. While attending NYU she was an assistant at the Carol Mann agency and she currently retains her position as Editorial Assistant of The Story Prize.

Email: sb(at)goldinlit.com