Taryn Fagerness is an agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, an agency known for guiding the careers of many best-selling authors including Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Kate White, Irvin Yalom, Eric Foner, Peter Irons, Lisa See, Anchee Min, Diane Mott Davidson, Janell Cannon and many others. The Los Angeles Times dubbed the Dijkstra Agency “the most powerful literary agency on the West Coast” and, in its 20 plus years, the agency has developed a reputation for discovering new talent and representing quality work with great commercial potential. Taryn is also the Subrights Manager at the Agency selling foreign rights to over 35 countries around the world, along with film, audio and merchandising rights. She is actively building her list and specializes in mainstream fiction, science fiction, memoir, narrative non-fiction, ‘quirky’ non-fiction, and non-fiction with a science or environmental angle.
