Stephen Fraser
Literary Agent
Stephen Fraser has been a literary agent with The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency in New York City for 20 years, after working for more than twenty-five years at seven major publishers including HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Scholastic. His clients have won the Newbery Honor Medal, both the Edgar and PEN awards, and received multiple starred reviews. He is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont with a degree in English Literature and has a Master’s Degree in Children’s Literature from Simmons College in Boston. Stephen is a popular speaker at writer’s conferences throughout the country. He has recently established the Stephen Fraser Encouragement Fund through SCBWI’s Impact and Legacy division, which offers three grants annually of $2,000 to writers, illustrators, and translators with at least one book published.
