Corissa Hollenbeck

Corissa Hollenbeck grew up in Massachusetts and attended Phillips Academy Andover, King’s College London, the University of Freiburg, and the Columbia Publishing Course. She has worked at VICE, Marie Claire, and The Guardian. Corissa has worked with a broad range of prize-winning and bestselling authors whilst assisting literary agent and Managing Director Will Francis. 

Her own clients include biological anthropologist Zaneta Thayer, historian Douglas Small, journalists Maggie Lange, Cara Tallo, and academic James Muldoon. On behalf of her US colleagues she has represented Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu, Moonchild by Kat Moon, Feel by Stephanie Harrison, and Good Enough Marriage by Jessica Grogan and Daniel Oppenheimer.

Some of her favourite non-fiction titles include Playing with Reality by Kelly Clancy, Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert, Guilty Pleasures by Patricia Nilsson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark by Don Thompson and Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol. 

Corissa is actively building her list and is looking to hear from researchers, investigative journalists, historians, academics, and culture writers. She is interested in writers who can help readers see the world differently, or experts who are keen to find a mainstream audience for their ideas and writing. She would love to find a punk memoir, akin to Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald, and is eager to hear from people with a unusual story to tell in a raw and gritty way.