Alexa Stark joined Trident in 2012 to work with Ellen Levine and her illustrious authors.  She was soon promoted to First Serial Associate and sold stories, essays, and book excerpts to The New Yorker, Harper’s, Paris Review, The Atlantic, Tin House, N+1, and The New York Times, among others. This event is FREE for members or purchase tickets here (availability is limited): $15 alumni; $25 non-member.

Alexa is actively growing her own client list and represents a range of literary and upmarket fiction as well as nonfiction.  In fiction, she is particularly drawn to literary debuts with a unique voice and perspective, character-driven suspense and thrillers, stories about dysfunctional friendships and families, fiction that delves into the surreal, and select YA.  Above all, she’s looking for assured prose, captivating storytelling, and characters that come alive.  In nonfiction, she is drawn to narrative nonfiction, cultural criticism, voice-driven essay collections, popular science, psychology, and women’s issues.

Raised in New York City, Alexa earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.  Before coming to Trident, she worked at PEN American Center and at Curtis Brown.  She lives in Brooklyn.