Alexandra Machinist
Alexandra Machinist joined the Linda Chester Literary Agency in March 2007.
A native New Yorker and perennial Janklow & Nesbit college summer intern, after graduating from the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia School of Law, Alexandra practiced corporate law for a couple of years before delightedly returning to the literary fold. She is a promiscuous reader whose interests span a huge range of genres, with the common element being a superlative and engaging voice. She is actively building her list and looking for literary fiction, historical fiction, pop-culture (particularly science and nature), narrative nonfiction, and anything that explores an unknown subculture or subtext.
Recent fiction sales include Erica Eisdorfer's THE WET NURSE'S TALE, a neo-Victorian novel in the tradition of Sarah Waters and Michel Faber (Putnam), Nicole Dickson's CASTING OFF, a magical novel about a mother and daughter whose lives change during a summer on an island off the coast of Ireland (NAL) and Marta Acosta's NANCY'S GUIDE TO STYLE (Pocket) about an event planner's plummet from grace.