Sarah Bowlin is a senior agent at Aevitas Creative Management which she joined in 2017. Before becoming an agent, she was an editor at Riverhead Books and Holt where she worked with the acclaimed writers Sheila Heti, Rachel Khong, and Helen Phillips, among others. As an agent she has represented emerging and award-winning voices including the National Book award-winning translator and novelist Bruna Dantas Lobato; 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, Kevin Nguyen, Wendy Chen, and Ismail Muhammad. She is interested in bold voices and experiments in form—specifically stories of strong or difficult women and narratives of place, identity, and the shifting ways we see ourselves and each other. Originally from the South, she now lives in Los Angeles.