is a mixed-race Black writer of fiction and creative nonfiction seeking agent representation for her first novel, Upright and Blameless.

A campus novel about ambition, privilege, and the gray areas of consent at a college ruled by draconian and gendered disciplinary policies, this is Elif Batuman’s Either/Or meets Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You, with an exploration of race similar to Brandon Taylor’s Real Life.