About Stephanie
Stephanie Koven began her publishing career in 1993 as Assistant Editor at Grand Street. In 1995, she left to work with Carol Brown Janeway at Alfred A. Knopf. During her 13 years at Knopf, Stephanie had the dual position of Assistant Editor and Foreign Rights Manager. She worked to publish many best-selling authors in the US, often in translation, and was also responsible for selling UK and translation rights to internationally best-selling works, including Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Sherwin B. Nuland’s How We Die, Edward O. Wilson’s Consilience, Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, and all of John Updike’s titles.
In 2008, Stephanie joined Janklow & Nesbit Associates as an agent, representing authors in the US and international markets. The work Stephanie has sold abroad includes Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother, Jill Lepore’s Book of Ages, Joanna Rakoff’s My Salinger Year, Steven Weinberg’s To Explain the World, Michael Punke’s The Revenant, Lev Grossman's Magicians Trilogy, and books in many other genres, including middle grade and YA.
In January 2017, Stephanie founded Cullen Stanley International with her long-time colleague Cullen Stanley.
Stephanie graduated with a BA in Literature from The George Washington University in 1989. She spent her junior year at Antioch’s University’s literature program in London. Stephanie is currently a literary curator at Pen + Brush.
Stephanie Koven is looking for narrative driven fiction and, in nonfiction, lifestyle & health, memoir, history, popular science, and outdoor / nature / adventure titles. She represents a select number of middle grade books, mainly in nonfiction. Stephanie's recent projects include David Coggins' New York Times best seller Men and Style (Abrams) and Joy Rhoades' debut novel The Woolgrower's Companion (Penguin Random House). ​