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What Heather is looking for
Heather has wide-ranging tastes and seeks to represent writers who are also driven by curiosity and discovery—whether through formal inventiveness in fiction, as in Kiese Laymon’s Long Division , or through rigorous investigative journalism, like Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing . She’s often drawn to poets who have turned their hand to prose and is always interested in writers whose dexterity with language allows them to articulate an emotion or sensibility she hasn’t previously been able to describe. Having grown up in a land of glittery freezing fog and moss-draped forests, she has a deep love for moody atmospheres and setting-as-character. A firm believer in magic as a child, she doesn
Notable sales & clients
- Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
- The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
- Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery
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Heather Carr represents Upmarket Fiction.
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