Georgia Bodnar has launched Noyan Literary, a boutique literary agency based in New York representing “authors writing works that shape our understanding of the world and offer profound insights into its complexities,” of which she is the sole proprietor.
The agency looks to represent, Bodnar said, “writers of ambition who are writing books of enduring consequence in both fiction and nonfiction,” predominately on the adult side but also open to select young adult titles. The initial list includes such authors as Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde, New York Times reporter Debra Kamin, theologian Rev. Laura Rasmussen, and writers Pablo Castro and Laura Quick.
Bodnar was most recently an agent in the publishing division at UTA, where she worked with clients including civil rights attorney Ben Crump and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki. She joined UTA in 2022 after eight years in editorial at Viking Penguin, where she was most recently a senior editor, and where she acquired books by such authors as Uzo Aduba, Mikki Kendall, DeRay Mckesson, Aparna Nancherla, and Erika Sánchez. She began her publishing career as a production coordinator at Tor.
Bodnar’s publishing career, she said, started late, in her late twenties, after years of doing nonprofit work, and she hopes that her new position running a boutique “makes me a little bit more accessible to writers who have a path that looks a little more like mine—who don’t really know the people to know, who don’t really have the relationships, but who have the talent.” She added: “I’m hoping that running an independent agency, I can be a little bit more clear about the values that are important to me and my ideals, specifically.”
