Kelly Dyksterhouse
Kelly Dyksterhouse is a literary agent with the Tobias Literary Agency. She has a MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults and specializes in building the careers of authors and illustrators who work on a broad range of projects from picture books to young adult novels, graphic novels, and fascinating nonfiction for the youth market. In picture books she is drawn to stories that are subversively funny and accessible to the child reader; in MG she is on the hunt for books with series potential, ghost stories, and grounded fantasy from a unique perspective; in YA, she loves lush prose, contained settings, historical novels that feel relevant, and fantasy featuring a diverse perspective; she looks for NF projects with a strong hook that expand her understanding in surprising ways.