Tricia Lawrence
Tricia Lawrence represents award-winning authors and illustrators of picture books and chapter books that look at the world in a unique and unusual way, with characters that are alive both on and off the page. Her clients have won awards such as the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award, Coretta Scott King Illustration Honor, Charlotte Zolotow Award, and Ezra Keats Honor. She also represents middle grade and young adult fiction as well as adult fiction.
In middle grade and young adult nonfiction as well as adult nonfiction, Tricia seeks out book ideas and platforms that offer untold stories by creators with a specific axiom or lens that speaks to the current issues, pains, fears, and hopes of both our current world and tomorrow’s. Her client list includes Paula Yoo’s Boston Globe-Horn Book award winner and National Book Award long listed YA nonfiction book about Vincent Chin. Paula’s second YA nonfiction book about the LA Uprising won the 2025 YALSA Nonfiction Medal.
Tricia has worked in the publishing industry as a development and production-based editor for 30 years (from kid’s books to college textbooks, but mostly college textbooks) and previously worked at Erin Murphy Literary as senior agent. She is based in Seattle.
Tricia accepts queries by request or referral, or from people who have attended conferences where she is part of the faculty, on the contact page on her website.
Represents
The Gabi That Girma Wore
Not Just the Driver!
Challah for Shabbat Tonight
Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver
Good Knight
How to Hatch: A Gosling's Guide to Breaking Free
The Benefits of Being An Octopus
Flight of the Puffin
Opinions and Opossums
Into the Rapids
It's Corn Picking Time!
Polecat Has a Superpower
Parrotfish Has a Superpower
Stinkbird Has a Superpower
Bird Girl
Jack Knight's Brave Flight
Thunder & Cluck series
We Love Babies!
How to Grow a Dinosaur
Where'd My Jo Go?
Last Chance Academy (1): A Study in Secrets
On The Block: Stories of Home (edited by Ellen Oh)
This Is How I Roll
Sweet and Sour
Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai
Keep It Together, Keiko Carter
Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen
Jasmine Toguchi, Super Sleuth
Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl
Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper
Jasmine Toguchi, Brave Explorer
Jasmine Toguchi, Peace-Maker
Jasmine Toguchi, Bridge Builder
Jasmine Toguchi, Great Gardener
Niki Nakayama: A Chef's Tale in 13 Bites (co-authored with Jamie Michalak)
My Furry Foster Family
The Fisher Boy: A Graphic Folktale
Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata
Last Chance Academy (2): Mastermind's Trap
Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings
Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data
Nature’s Rule Breakers: Creatures That Don’t Fit In
Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions
So Rude: Animals Behaving Badly
Call Forth a Fox
The Spider Lady: Nan Songer and Her Arachnid WWII Army
Merry Christmas, Dear Mars
There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight
A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale
The Color of Dragons
Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for the Unbreakable Arts
Kelcie Murphy and the Hunt for the Heart of Danu
Kelcie Murphy and the Race for the Reaper's Key
Game of Shadows
Firebrand
Acursian
The 49th Key
#Guardian
Sanctuary
Shadow
Taking Off
Winnie's War
How Robots Work
Look Inside a Castle
Look Inside a Pueblo
Grambo
Kiko the Hawaiian Wave
The Farewitch of Foxe Holler
Foxe Holler #2
All the Rocks We Love
My Love for You
Patterns Everywhere
Tell Me About Oceans
Tell Me About Space
The Littlest Solstice Tree
Wonder Why
I am a Bon Dancer
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
Good Enough
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story
The Story Of: Olympic Diver Sammy Lee
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
New York, NY 10010
Special thank you to Tania de Regil for the ACM Kids & Illustrators Logo.