This month on the Metropolitan Culture Corner, we go behind the scenes with Jessica Craig, literary agent and founder of Craig Literary. Her publishing career started more than 20 years ago as a literary scout in New York after having graduated from Columbia University; she later moved to Edinburgh, London and Barcelona, negotiating international contracts as an agent for authors from diverse backgrounds.
In 2016, she started her own literary agency in her apartment in Barcelona. She began with just six clients; today, she works with 36 different authors representing all kinds of literary genres, nationalities and backgrounds, each with their own unique stories to tell. The authors she works with write both fiction and non-fiction, and tend to explore, in Jessica’s own words: “globally relevant themes; storytelling that dismantles walls and builds bridges, challenging and deepening the reader's understanding of self and other, of society, language, art or humanity.”
