Kesia Lupo – Editor

**Please note that if you pay me for editorial work, I cannot consider you for representation due to AALA rules.**

I've been working in publishing since 2013, when I started as Editorial Services Assistant at Pan Macmillan London, working on copy-edits and proofreads and specializing in the SFF-focussed Tor list. I worked with authors such as Adrian Tchaikovsky, Genevieve Cogman, and Jay Kristoff.

In 2015 I was hired as Junior Editor at YA and MG fiction publisher Chicken House – over the following eight years I was promoted through Editor to Senior Editor, ultimately acquiring for the list across multiple genres. Titles I worked on included Costa Book Award-winning Asha and the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan and bestselling Tin by Pádraig Kenny, which reached no. 11 on the Times children's bestseller chart. The below portfolio contains a selection of the titles I worked on while at Chicken House.

In 2023, I moved to the US and switched careers into literary agenting. I represented both adult and children’s fiction and select non-fiction for The Bindery Agency and sold titles in both the US and the UK. In my top deal, I closed a six-figure, 48-hour pre-empt for an epic fantasy triology launching with PRH UK in 2025. I worked closely with all my clients to develop their manuscripts for submission, continuing to use my editorial skills throughout my time as an agent.

After a 3-month gap where freelance editing took the lead, I now agent at the Donald Maass Literary Agency, often ranked the top agency for SFF on Publishers Marketplace, where I'm building a list that spans middle-grade, YA and adult fiction and select adult non-fiction. Alongside agenting and editing, I work part-time as a bookseller and appear regularly at writing conferences, teaching about craft and the publishing industry and meeting authors.

Lastly, I have three YA novels out with Bloomsbury UK – fantasies We Are Blood and Thunder (2019) and We Are Bound by Stars (2020), and horror/thriller Let’s Play Murder (2023).

I hope to bring my mutlifacted, 12-year experience to bear on every project - I have a commercial eye, an exceptional understanding of what publishing involves, and a passion for helping writers develop their craft.