Roz Foster joined the Goldin Agency in 2019 after six years as a literary agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. She holds a BA in English Literature from UCSD, an MA in English from Portland State University, and studied Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. She’s passionate about books that explore vital human themes—morality, purpose, freedom, faith, hierarchy, success, violence, meaning, love, and death. She loves writing that has emotional depth, makes insightful observations, and demonstrates exquisite linguistic skill.
Roz is seeking literary fiction, often with a genre element. She’s especially drawn to literary speculative and grounded sci-fi. She’s also looking for literary supernatural, mystery, crime, and thriller. She enjoys dark stories with big questions at their core. Some of her favorite authors are Kazuo Ishiguro, José Saramago, Katie Kitamura, Yōko Ogawa, Tana French, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Rachel Cusk. In nonfiction, she’s interested in narrative nonfiction, history, tech, science, and design.
Recent titles include Scott Alexander Howard’s THE OTHER VALLEY (Atria & Scribner Canada; television rights to Universal/Working Title); Robin Bernstein’s FREEMAN’S CHALLENGE: THE MURDER THAT SHOOK AMERICA’S ORIGINAL PRISON FOR PROFIT (U of Chicago Press); Surekha Davies’s HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (UC Press); Christopher Paul Harris’s TO BUILD A BLACK FUTURE (Princeton UP); and Benjamin Weber’s AMERICAN PURGATORY: PRISON IMPERIALISM AND THE RISE OF MASS INCARCERATION (New Press). Select titles through the Dijkstra Agency include Constance Sayers’s A WITCH IN TIME, THE LADIES OF THE SECRET CIRCUS and THE STAR & THE STRANGE MOON (Redhook); Susan O’Donovan’s BECOMING CITIZENS (Penguin Press); and Daniel Russell’s THE JOY OF SEARCH (MIT Press).
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