Our Team

HEIDE LANGE, PRESIDENT

With over forty years of agenting experience, Heide’s books reflect her background, interests, and passions. As the agency’s president, she has represented books that analyze and guide the roles of women in business as well as both serious and practical nonfiction about health and sexuality, psychology, family and parenting, social issues, nature and environment, journalism, history and biography, memoir, science, self-help and general reference. For the last two decades, Heide has focused on fiction. She represents Dan Brown, the worldwide bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and most recently, Origin. She also represents Brad Thor, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Scot Harvath series including the latest, Spymaster and Backlash. >>More

Dan Mandel, vice president

Dan Mandel represents both literary and commercial fiction, as well as memoirs and non-fiction about business, art, history, politics, sports, and popular culture. His clients write for The Economist, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others, and the books he has worked on have been New York Times Bestsellers, and short-listed for both the Booker and the FT Business Book of the Year. >>More 

Faith Hamlin, sENIOR aGENT

Faith has enjoyed many years in publishing. She was a book store manager and a sales rep at a number of houses, rising to National Sales Manager at Macmillan before embarking upon her career as an agent. She has built an eclectic list of talented authors and illustrators over the course of a rewarding, decades-spanning career. >>More

MATT BIALER, SENIOR AGENT

Matt has been in the publishing community since 1985, and worked at two major literary agencies before joining the Greenburger team in 2003. He represents fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, and mysteries as well as a select group of literary writers, and also loves smart narrative nonfiction including books about current events, popular culture, biography, history, music, race, and sports. While his list includes many veteran authors, he also enjoys finding unique new voices. >>More

RACHAEL DILLON FRIED, AGENT

Rachael is selectively growing her client list with a keen interest in women’s literary and commercial fiction. She hopes to build long-term relationships with clients who are passionate about developing their career. >>More

wendi gu, AGENT

Wendi is privileged to represent a talented range of award-winning and bestselling children's books authors and illustrators. For all children's books categories, from picture books to young adult, Wendi values emotional stories filled with lyricism and heart. She is drawn toward books that help dismantle stereotypes about mental health, ability, and race. As the daughter of immigrants, she sees special importance in stories about migration and displacement, especially as they relate to friendship and family. >>More

Sarah Phair, AGENT

Sarah represents a range of fiction and nonfiction authors writing for the adult market. In fiction she focuses on upmarket and literary fiction that is accessible to a wide audience and contains beautiful language with elevated ideas. If you would read it in your book club or take it on vacation, it might be a good fit for Sarah’s list. In nonfiction, her areas of interest include: progressive politics, popular science, psychology, self-development, gender, pop culture, and anything about food. >>More

alexander slater, AGENT

Alex has only ever worked for authors. A UConn graduate with a concentration in creative writing, he has experience in every area of literary agenting, from interning and assisting, to selling foreign rights and cultivating his own client list. After two years at the Maria Carvainis Agency, and twelve years at Trident Media Group, he’s thrilled to be bringing his passion for publishing and his expertise in its business to SJGA and GreenburgerKids. As always, Alex seeks to launch careers, especially for writers who have been systematically held back. His clients today include several award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors. >>More

zoe sandler, AGENT

Prior to joining SJGA, Zoe spent over 11 years at ICM (now CAA), first as a royalties assistant, then after apprenticing with a literary agent, she began representing her own author clients. Zoe represents a mix of adult fiction that could be classified as commercial yet unconventional (she especially loves when a novel takes her by surprise), and narrative nonfiction largely by female journalists who specialize in fields such as science, the environment, medicine, and untold women's history. Within children's, Zoe specializes in voice-driven middle grade that leans more literary, and the occasional picture book, especially those that have a strong message. >> More

clare mao, agent

Clare represents adult fiction and nonfiction writers and creators who are poets, musicians, journalists, illustrators, bar owners, artists, and more. Across genres, she is drawn to writers who are curious, thoughtful, and critical, who have expansive interests and concerns including and outside of writing, and who have a knack for blending genres and forms. Most importantly, she wants to represent writers who are having fun. In upmarket and literary fiction, she is looking for novels with a strong sense of place, insightful character work, and beautiful prose. In nonfiction, she is seeking cultural criticism, journalism, memoir/narrative, and essay collections. >>More

Abigail Frank, associate agent

Abigail is passionate about stories for young people, especially those that are hilarious, weird, poetic, quietly heartbreaking, and/or swoon-worthy, and she cares about voice, above all. She gravitates towards picture books that feel entirely original, chapter books with big personalities, and novels about unforgettable teens falling in love. She’s actively looking for stories that invite more young readers to recognize themselves in the books they love, and for writing that never underestimates the characters or the audience. >>More

Iwalani Kim, associate agent

Iwalani is seeking adult upmarket and literary fiction and select nonfiction. In fiction, she loves coming-of-age narratives, family dramas, and stories that challenge systems of power. She is often drawn to a strong sense of voice and/or place, whether the storytelling is grounded in realism or engages with a speculative element. She gravitates toward lush prose, wry humor, irreverent characters, and a sense of yearning. Iwalani is also looking for narrative nonfiction such as memoir, cultural histories, and cultural criticism. She would love to work with writers that are engaging with history, design and architecture, sociology, and anthropology, especially from a leftist angle. >>More

Bailey Tamayo, associate agent

Bailey is seeking middle grade, YA, and adult speculative fiction, fantasy, sci fi, horror, and anything in between—especially when the genre is a unique setting for the deeply human stories underneath. She is drawn to poignant coming of age narratives the likes of any given Ghibli film, and her favorite stories are those that are gently heartbreaking, hopeful, or (ideally) both. She enjoys dry humor, lyrical prose, lovable and complex characters, and rich worldbuilding, and she is eager to advocate for underrepresented authors. >>More

Madeline wallace, associate agent

Madeline is seeking literary and upmarket fiction, as well as select narrative nonfiction and memoir. She is committed to advocating for voices that have been underrepresented in publishing. In fiction, Madeline loves to lose herself in unputdownable stories with characters that transcend the page. More specifically, she would love to receive coming-of-age novels from adult perspectives, especially ones that turn tropes on their heads and offer engrossing, offbeat perspectives. In the nonfiction space, she is hoping for books that explore pop culture, examining celebrity and fandom through a critical lens. >>More

Hannah Strouth, associate agent

Hannah is looking for literary and upmarket fiction, as well as select nonfiction. In fiction, she gravitates toward nuanced and compelling work that digs deep into a wide range of emotions. She’s automatically drawn to stories that help discover and explore new aspects about people, the way we (dis)connect, what haunts us (literally and metaphorically) and how we confront it, and stories of resiliency. In nonfiction, whether it’s pop culture, narrative, self-help, or memoir, she loves anything that teaches her how to be a better human or look at the world through a fresh lens. Across the board, she’s always looking for diverse voices and experiences. >>More

dorothy vincent, director of foreign rights

dvincent@sjga.com

Dorothy began her publishing career at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates working in both the scouting and foreign rights departments. With over two decades of experience since as director of foreign rights at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, Trident Media Group and Creative Artists Agency, she has cultivated a treasured network of international colleagues and a long history of international success for a vast array of authors.  Though she works with all genres, her guilty pleasure reading includes anything with murder, fantasy, books about the brain, and cookbooks. Dorothy has now returned to Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, full circle in a thriving career that has gifted her the opportunity to be a staunch advocate around the world for talented authors and brilliant books. Please note that Dorothy does not take on clients herself.

CHARLES LOFFREDO, FINANCIAL MANAGER

cloffredo@sjga.com

Charles recently celebrated his 35th anniversary with Greenburger Associates. A native New Yorker, he joined the agency in 1985 by answering an ad in The Village Voice for a bookkeeper at a literary agency. He has been instrumental in designing and implementing all of the agency’s accounting software. His prior career was as an actor/director/producer of theater, founding his own nonprofit company Moving Parts Theater in 2000 to produce the dramatic work of a Greenburger author, a happy marriage of both careers!