Levine Greenberg authors have a tightly-knit team behind them. We're proud to be known as a "great place to work" that goes all out for its employees and its clients. We work very collaboratively and have a highly-disciplined process in which an agent draws on the wisdom and creativity of the team in order to give an author feedback. In our experience, we've found that this process produces better and more successful books.
Team
Jim Levine
Principal
Jim has spent most of his career putting together ideas, people, and money; identifying, nurturing, and marketing talent; and creating projects that make a difference. He thinks of being an agent as a "continuing liberal arts education," an opportunity to engage with experts and thought leaders in a wide variety of fields and help shape their work to reach the broadest possible audience...
Stephanie Rostan
Agent
A fiction lover who's spent more than one night reading until dawn, Stephanie believes that the compulsion to keep turning pages is as important in a literary coming-of-age story as it is in a serial killer novel. In the nonfiction arena, she is drawn to books that make our lives better, easier or more interesting-either through laughter, advice or the sharing of a true story...
Melissa Rowland
Business Manager
Melissa manages the office and finances for LGLA. After moving to New York from Ohio she worked at the Commodities Exchange before joining Jim Levine at the Bank Street College of Education where she was the Financial Administrator of The Media Group. She then spent a couple of years as Business Manager at The City & Country School before she rejoined Jim in his "new enterprise" 19 years ago...
Daniel Greenberg
Principal
Although Daniel's specialties are popular culture, narrative non-fiction, memoir, and humor, he will take on any project as long as there's a personal connection with the book and he's positively excited about representing the author. No non-fiction topic will ruffle his feathers...
Victoria Skurnick
Agent
Victoria Skurnick came to Levine Greenberg after being at The Book-of-the Month Club for almost twenty years. As Editor-in-Chief, she relished the opportunity to devour every kind of book, from the finest literary fiction to Yiddish for Dogs...
Danielle Svetcov
Agent
Danielle Svetcov joined Levine Greenberg in 2001 as a book doctor, and a few years later, began selling books from her “remote” outpost in San Francisco, California. She looks for titles that make her laugh. She particularly likes to laugh while she’s crying (Half Baked), or eating (Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It), or parenting (Balance Is a Crock & Sleep Is for the Weak), or sweating (Yoga Bitch).
Elizabeth Fisher
Rights Manager
After spending her childhood, adolescence and college years in the Garden State, Beth set her sights on the Big Apple. Alternating her nights between waitressing at an Irish Pub in NJ and studying at the NYU Publishing Program, she soon began working with a New York literary agency before moving to NYC and joining Simon & Schuster’s subsidiary rights department. Because she missed working with authors and the creative side of publishing, Beth rejoined the agency side and came to Levine Greenberg Literary Agency in 2004 to help build their foreign rights department.
Lindsay Edgecombe
Agent
Lindsay represents a wide range of adult titles, including narrative nonfiction, memoir, lifestyle, and literary and commercial fiction. She is drawn to projects with strong narrators, obscure journeys, and political backbones, but she is an eclectic reader and will take on any project that she's passionate about...
Monika Verma
Agent
Monika Verma is thrilled to be working at Levine Greenberg with Daniel Greenberg and Stephanie Rostan and as an agent. Monika keeps a special place in her heart for pop culture, humor, narrative non-fiction, fashion, foodie, and music titles...
Kerry Sparks
Associate Agent
Kerry loves to be transported and surprised when reading both fiction and nonfiction. She is looking for great YA and middle-grade fiction, both commercial and literary, with a fresh voice and compelling story (although she tends to shy away from the paranormal) and enjoys the occasional picture book...
Julie Villar
Administrative Assistant
Julie grew up in Brooklyn and attended the University of Vermont, majoring in History (focusing on 20th Century Europe) and English (focusing on post-colonial literature). At Levine Greenberg, she assists Melissa and Beth...
Miek Coccia
Our Man in Berlin
Miek first started working with the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency in 1999, though he took a few years off to workshop a film, assist artists and travel to Berlin. He returned to work for the agency part-time in the summer of 2005...
Arielle Eckstut
Agent-at-Large
Arielle is now working as an Agent-at-Large for Levine Greenberg, helping to identify and refer talented writers and experts to her colleagues. Arielle's interests and activities vary widely, and she is most excited by ideas that expand our consciousness, challenge our assumptions and seek to make our world a more visually exciting place...
Kirsten Wolf
Contracts Manager
Kirsten Wolf is the contracts manager for Levine Greenberg. A graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston University School of Law, Kirsten spent the better part of the '90s putting herself through college and law school doing a wide variety of jobs, ranging from working as a professional chef to managing an engineering firm...