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FEATURED WRITER AND ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

ELISE CAPRON

Elise Capron is an agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, an agency known for establishing and guiding the careers of critically acclaimed fiction and nonfiction authors. Established 30 years ago, SDLA has developed a reputation for discovering new talent and representing quality work with commercial potential.

Elise has been with the Dijkstra Agency since 2003. In addition to her own agenting, she assists Sandra Dijkstra and handles first serial sales. She specializes in debut fiction, character-driven literary and offbeat fiction, and short story collections. She is also interested in some narrative nonfiction. She hopes to find fiction with unforgettable writing, a terrific narrative voice, and great characters. Elise loves novels with an unusual or eccentric edge, and is drawn to stories she has never heard before. She hopes to work with writers who are professional, have a realistic sense of the market, and who are getting their work published regularly in literary magazines.

Some of Elise's recent and soon-to-be-published books include Jonathon Keats' Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology (Oxford University Press) and The Book of the Unknown (Random House), Tiphanie Yanique's How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf), Rikki Ducornet's Netsuke (Coffee House Press), Jack Shuler's Blood and Bone: Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town (University of South Carolina Press), and Ali Liebegott's The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf).