Maya Guthrie joined Little, Brown and Company in 2023 and is building her list with an eye for Black literary fiction that has a speculative bent: stories that celebrate the experiences of the Black diaspora, centering Black joy more so than Black trauma. She’s also interested in speculative LGBTQ+ fiction. In her time at Little, Brown, she’s had the pleasure of working with incredible authors, including Rickey Fayne, Nathaniel Ian Miller, Alejandro Puyana, Leslie Jamison, Joe Wilkins, Elin Hilderbrand, Michael Connelly, Dan Slater, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Adam Haslett. She lives in Queens.