TRIDENT MEDIA GROUP, LLC

Melissa Flashman grew up in Kentucky, graduated from Wesleyan University and studied in the Ph.D. program in English at Johns Hopkins. She represents narrative and serious non-fiction, political, lifestyle and pop-culture books and fiction. Upcoming titles include: SAVE THE WORLD ON YOUR OWN TIME (Oxford UP) by New York Times opinion columnist Stanley Fish; CLICK (Hyperion) by Time.com columnist and online intelligence research guru Bill Tancer; TURNCOATS (Viking) by Daniel Oppenheimer; POSEUR(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)  by Rachel Maude Reilich, a teen fiction series with illustrations by fashion designers Compai and the author;  the 99 WAYS do-it-yourself fashion series (PotterCraft) by Compai; THE POISON APPLES (Feiwel & Friends) a YA novel by Lily Archer; HOW TO BE USEFUL: A Beginner’s Guide to the Meritocracy (Houghton Mifflin) by Megan Hustad; STARBUCKED: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture (Little, Brown & Co.) by Taylor and The Renegade Sportsman (Riverhead) by Zach Dundas. She has also sold articles and fiction to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, American Scholar, Salon.com, Granta, n + 1 and Tin House among others.