Sarah Bowlin is a senior agent at Aevitas Creative Management. Before becoming an agent in 2017, she was an editor at Riverhead Books and Henry Holt & Company where she focused on literary fiction and edited Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Sheila Heti, Rachel Khong, Julie Buntin, and Helen Phillips, among others. As an agent, she has worked with emerging and award-winning voices including the National Book award-winning translator and novelist Bruna Dantas Lobato; two-time Giller Prize-winning writer Souvankham Thammavongsa; 2023 5 Under 35 honoree from the National Book Foundation Jenny Xie; the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award-winner in Adult Fiction Janika Oza; as well as acclaimed writers Ann Packer, Lynn Steger Strong, Ayşegül Savaş, Vanessa Veselka, Gene Kwak, Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes, T Clark, Hope Wabuke, and Kevin Nguyen. She is interested in bold voices—specifically stories of place, identity, and the shifting ways we see ourselves and each other. Originally from the South, she now lives in Los Angeles.
