TASSY JUDGES 2001-2020
This list of judges is an appreciation of the expertise that has been generously offered by more than 150 top professionals to the Tassy Walden Award in its first twenty years. These judges may have moved from the publishing house or agency listed under their names—or they may be altogether retired from the industry—but the list illuminates the quality of the judging we gratefully rely on.
TASSY AGENTS
Stephanie Abou Global Lit Management
Tracey Adams Victoria Wells Arms Wells Arms Literary Stephen Barr Writers House Mela Bolinao MB Artists Brenda Bowen Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc. Jennifer Carlson Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Andrea Cascardi Transatlantic Literary Susan Cohen Writers House Nadia Cormier Firebrand Merial Cornell Cornell & McCarthy Erzsi Deàk Hen & Ink, A Literary Studio Adriana Dominguez Full Circle Lit Jennie Dunham Dunham Literary Jeff Dwyer Dwyer & O'Grady
Liza Fleissig Liza Royce Agency
Stephen Fraser Jennifer DeChiara Literary
Nicole Geiger Full Circle Literary
Mollie Glick Foundry Literary
Adria Goetz Martin Lit. Management
Kelly Going Curtis Brown
Barry Goldblatt Barry Goldblatt Agency
Clelia Gore Martin Literary & Media Management Karen Grencik Red Fox Literary
Katie Grimm Don Congdon
Regina Griffin Egmont USA
Kirsten Hall Catbird Agency
Carrie Hannigan HSG Agency
Elizabeth Harding Curtis Brown
Susan Hawk The Bent Agency
Alyssa Eisner Henkin Trident Media
Blair Hewes Dunham Literary
Julie Just Janklow & Nesbit
Taylor Martindale Kean Full Circle Literary
Jennie Kendrick Red Fox Literary
Theresa Kietlinski The Prospect Agency
Jennifer Laughran Andrea Brown Literary
Tricia Lawrence Erin Murphy Agency
Tracy Marchini BookEnds Literary
Jim McCarthy Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret
Holly McGhee Pippin Properties
Emily Mitchell Wernick & Pratt Agency
Lori Nowicki Painted Words
Rachel Orr Prospect Agency
Ammi-Joan Paquette Erin Murphy Literary Agency
Lara Perkins Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Jenna Pocius Red Fox Literary
Marian Reiner Marian Reiner Literary
Eileen Robinson (Independent Consultant: Book Works)
Rebecca Sherman Writers House
Danielle Smith Foreward Literary
Shadra Strickland Painted Words
Scott Treimel Scott Treimel Agency
Christina Tugeau CATugeau Artist Agency
Nicole Tugeau Tugeau 2, Inc.
Harold Underdown (Independent Consultant)
Emily Van Beek Folio Literary Management
Anna Webman Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Marcia Wernick Sheldon Fogelman Agency Wernick & Pratt Agency
TASSY EDITORS & ART DIRECTORS
Victoria Wells Arms Bloomsbury
Jenny Bak Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Alessandra Balzer Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins
Stacey Barney Penguin
Chad Beckerman Abrams
Simon Boughton W.W. Norton & Co.
Donna Bray Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins
Tamar Brazis Abrams
Deborah Brodie Roaring Brook Press
Nicki Carmack Peachtree Publishing
Mary Kate Castellani Bloomsbury
Giuseppe Castellano Penguin
Melanie Cecka Bloomsbury Children’s Books
Justin Chanda Simon & Schuster
Erin Clarke Alfred A. Knopf
Michele Coppola Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Dutton
Jody Corbett Scholastic
Denise Cronin Viking
Jill Davis Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins
Trisha deGuzman Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Kelly Delaney Random House
Kate DePalma Barefoot Books
Mary Lee Donovan Candlewick Press
Mariellen Eaton Tilbury House, Publishers
Alyssa Eisner Simon & Schuster
Sylvie Frank Paula Wiseman Book/ S & S
Stephen Fraser HarperCollins
Michelle Frey Knopf Books for Young Readers
Brian Geffen Henry Holt/Macmillan
Tim Gillner Boyds Mills Press
Cecile Goyette Alfred A. Knopf Books Dial Books
Regina Griffin Egmont USA
Julie Ham (Bliven) Charlesbridge
Anahid Hamparian Marshall Cavendish
Connie Hsu Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan
Deirdre E. Jones Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Loraine Joyner Peachtree Publishing
Cheryl Klein Arthur A. Levine Books
Jennifer Klonsky Aladdin/ Simon & Schuster
Liz Kossnar Simon & Schuster
Bob Kosturko Houghton Mifflin
Elizabeth Law Viking/Penguin
Emma Ledbetter Beach Lane/ Simon & Schuster
Alvina Ling Little, Brown
Laurent Linn Simon & Schuster
Stephanie Lurie Dutton
Lily Malcom Dial Books
Donna Mark Bloomsbury
Holly McGhee Pippin Properties
Caroline Meckler Wendy Lamb Books/Random House
Nancy Mercado Dial Books Roaring Brook Press
Wendy McClure Albert Whitman
Annette-Pollert Morgan Bloomsbury YA
Kristen Nobles Candlewick Press
Janine O'Malley Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Judy O'Malley
Christy Ottaviano C. Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt
Monica Perez Charlesbridge TEEN Andrea Davis Pinkney Scholastic
Neal Porter Roaring Brook Press
Martha Rago HarperCollins Margaret Raymo Houghton Mifflin
Ariel Richardson Chronicle Books
Ann Rider Houghton Mifflin
Lauren Rille Simon & Schuster
Julie Romeis Chronicle Books
Abigail Samoun Tricycle Press
Elizabeth Schonhorst
Emily Seife Schwartz & Wade/Random House
Rebecca Short Delacorte
Sarah Shumway Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins
Andrea Spooner Little, Brown
Dinah Stevenson Clarion Books
Sue Tarsky Albert Whitman & Company
Elizabeth Tingue Penguin
Andrea Tompa Candlewick Press
Andrea Welch Beach Lane Books
Stacy Whitman Lee and Low
Phoebe Yeh Crown
Cecilia Yung G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House
