As my internship was ending and I was preparing to go back to school to finish my last semester, a job opened up in the publicity department.

I adored working at S&S and being around so many of the books I loved as a kid. At the time I was studying Entertainment Business at Gallatin aka the “make-your-own-major” school at NYU. I got my start as an intern in the Creative Services Department at Simon & Schuster when I was a rising senior in college. Find her on Twitter or How did you come to agenting? In addition to her work as an agent, Alexandra is the author of several books for children: Eat, Sleep, Poop, illustrated by Jane Massey (Knopf), We Are Brothers, We Are Friends, illustrated by Eda Kaban (FSG), The Littlest Viking, illustrated by Isabel Roxas (Knopf), Food Truck Fest, illustrated by Mike Dutton (FSG) and the forthcoming book, All Are Welcome, illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman (Knopf). Clients include New York Times Best Selling illustrator, Elizabeth Baddeley, Meghan McCarthy, Adam Lehrhaupt, and Suzanne Kaufman. Some of the books Alexandra has represented include SCBWI Golden Kite winner Boats for Papa by Jessixa Bagley (Roaring Brook), Be the Change by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus, illustrated by Evan Turk (S&S), and the 2017 Jumpstart Read for the Record Book, Quackers by Liz Wong (Knopf). She represents works for all age ranges and across genres.

Alexandra Penfold is a Literary Agent with Upstart Crow Literary Agency.

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