ABOUT ROZ
ROZ FOSTER is a senior literary agent at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency. She’s been in the business for over a decade, joining FGLA in 2019 after six years as an agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. She holds a BA in English Literature from UCSD, an MA in English from Portland State University, and studied Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. She’s passionate about books that explore vital human themes—morality, purpose, freedom, faith, hierarchy, success, violence, meaning, love, and, of course: death.
She's looking for gorgeous prose, writing with emotional and intellectual depth, and perceptive voices that easily express truth, wisdom and insight.
Roz is seeking mostly literary fiction. She’s especially drawn to contemporary literary fiction and literary speculative or grounded sci-fi—i.e. rather than hard sci-fi or high fantasy. She’s also looking for literary supernatural, magical realism, fabulism, mystery, crime, and thriller. She enjoys dark stories with big questions at their core. Some authors she loves are Kazuo Ishiguro, Paul Harding, Elif Batuman, Katie Kitamura, Yōko Ogawa, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Rachel Cusk. In nonfiction, she’s interested in history, narrative nonfiction, tech, science, psychology and design.
Recent titles include Scott Alexander Howard’s THE OTHER VALLEY (Atria & Scribner Canada; television rights to Universal/Working Title); Robin Bernstein’s FREEMAN’S CHALLENGE: THE MURDER THAT SHOOK AMERICA’S ORIGINAL PRISON FOR PROFIT (U of Chicago Press); Surekha Davies’s HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY (UC Press); and Benjamin Weber’s AMERICAN PURGATORY: PRISON IMPERIALISM AND THE RISE OF MASS INCARCERATION (New Press). Select titles through the Dijkstra Agency include Constance Sayers’s A WITCH IN TIME, THE LADIES OF THE SECRET CIRCUS and THE STAR & THE STRANGE MOON (Redhook); Susan O’Donovan’s BECOMING CITIZENS (Penguin Press); and Daniel Russell’s THE JOY OF SEARCH (MIT Press).