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.