TRIDENT MEDIA GROUP, LLC

Alyssa Eisner Henkin is a 1998 graduate of both the University of Pennsylvania and the Radcliffe Publishing Course. Before joining Trident, she spent over seven years as an editor in the children’s division at Simon & Schuster where she edited the New York Times bestseller Little Quack, The first Theodore Seuss Geisel Award recipient, Henry and Mudge, and the acclaimed Wedding Planner’s Daughter and Mother-Daughter Book Club series for tween girls.

In December of 2006 Alyssa joined Trident Media Group as an agent for children’s books. She is seeking contemporary middle grade and YA novels, and is particularly keen on high-concept middle grade adventures and mysteries, epic YA love stories brimming with humor and regional flavors, and crossover commercial fiction that appeals to teens and young women alike.

Upcoming titles include: Amaranth by Julie Berry (Bloomsbury), My Life in Pink & Green by Lisa Greenwald (Abrams), Andrew Klavan’s Homelanders series (Thomas Nelson), Susan Shaw’s One of The Survivors (Simon & Schuster), Lauren Barnholdt’s Devon Delaney Should Totally No Better (Simon & Schuster), Carolyn MacCullough’s Once A Witch and Always A Witch (Houghton Mifflin), Janet Fox’s Faithful Series (Penguin), Lauren Barnholdt’s Ace’s Up (Random House), Jennifer Roy’s Genius vs. the World (Marshall Cavendish), Sarah MacLean’s Nine Rules to Break When Romancing A Rake (Avon/Harper Collins), Debra Diesen’s The Big Big Dark (Farrar, Straus), PG Kain’s The Go-See Chronicles (Simon & Schuster), and Jessica Burkhart’s Canterwood Crest Series books 1-8 (Simon & Schuster)

Anne Alstott, Lauren Barnholdt, Daphne Benedis-Grab, Julie Berry, Shellie Braeuner, Jennifer Bryant, Jessica Burkhart, Debra Diesen, Janet S. Fox, Sally Gardner, Lisa Greenwald, Wendy Anderson Halperin, Ariel Horn, P.G. Kain, Caroline Kenney, Isobel Lee,  Carolyn MacCullough, Sarah MacLean, Kristina Purnhagen, Bobbie Pyron, Jennifer Roy, Jenny Sawyer, Jessica Schein, Christine Seifert, Susan Shaw, Ebony Wilkins