Elizabeth Evans worked at Reece Halsey North as a reader and editor for two years before becoming an Associate Agent in 2006. She represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, including literary fiction, mysteries, science-fiction, biography and memoir. Elizabeth is passionate about literary fiction and hopes to continue the agency's strong tradition of representing innovative, original talent. She's looking for excellent writing that strikes at the heart of the human condition.

Elizabeth is especially drawn to voice-driven fiction and narrative non-fiction in unfamiliar or exotic settings. She knows she's found a good project when she finds herself rereading a sentence two or three times, savoring its sounds and images. Special interests include stories set abroad, especially in Africa and Eastern Europe, magical realism, environmental issues, opera and fishing. She does not handle children's or young adult books, poetry or screenplays.

Elizabeth graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton College with a B.A. in English Literature. At Hamilton she worked for three years in the college writing center, an experience that taught her to love the editing process. She enjoys working closely with her authors to hone their writing skills and fine-tune their manuscripts. Elizabeth interned at Zyzzyva Magazine before beginning her M.F.A. graduate program at the University of San Francisco. She completed her M.F.A. in 2006 and continues to work on her first novel. She participates frequently as a speaker and faculty member at writers' conferences across the country, including the following:

Her forthcoming titles include THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE (Memoir to Broadway Books, April 2008), COURAGE TO SURRENDER (Spirituality/Self Help to Ten Speed, April 2008), EVEN SMOKE LEAVES A TRACE (first in an historical mystery series to Tor/Forge, June 2009), and LONELY HEART: the Life of Nathanael West (Biography to Atlas & Co., Spring 2010).