Esty Loveing-Downes holds a BFA in creative writing from Ringling College of Art + Design and an MFA in fiction at Queens University of Charlotte. Aside from serving as creative writing adjunct faculty at her alma mater, she joined the teams at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency and Tobias Literary Agency before joining the ArtHouse Literary Agency team and becoming an Associate Literary Agent in 2023. Esty is looking for romance in adult, new adult, or YA spaces, upmarket fiction, adult or YA grounded fantasy, and literary fiction.

Esty represents YA, romance, upmarket, and literary fiction work. She’s seeking manuscripts which center the adoptee experience, LGBTQIA+ narratives, anti-colonialist and anti-Church topics, and stories by and/or about BIPOC people. She favors stories which either celebrate with noisy joy, or burn everything down and salt the earth.

Before working in publishing, Esty worked as a pediatric LPN. At home, she has five children, three dogs, one husband, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Storyteller • Bookworm • Tenacious
Believer in beautiful, disruptive stories and the artists who tell them.