Wendy Sherman is president of Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc., a boutique literary agency known for discovering new writers and managing literary careers. Recent successes include the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN winner for best first novel A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka; Souvenir and Reunion by Therese Fowler; SIBA bestseller The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson; New York Times Bestseller Lunch in Paris ~ a Memoir with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard; At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream by humor memoirist Wade Rouse; and Love in 90 Days by Dr. Diana Kirschner. Following a twenty-year career holding senior positions with major New York publishing houses Ms. Sherman founded her agency in 1999 with a vision towards working more closely with writers. She is on the Board of Directors of AAR.
Ms. Sherman is especially interested in quality women's fiction with a distinctive voice and unique perspective. She also loves memoir and narrative nonfiction as well as prescriptive non-fiction which is media driven by strong author platform