David Gernert
David spent the first fourteen years of his publishing career at Doubleday, the last six as Editor-In-Chief. He left Doubleday in 1996 to start The Gernert Company, believing his experience as a publisher would give him some unique insight into the representation of authors. He lives in Pound Ridge with his wife and four children.

Sarah Burnes
Sarah began her career on the editorial side of publishing, first at Houghton Mifflin, then in the Knopf Group, and last at Little, Brown. She became an agent in 2001, joining The Gernert Company in 2005. As an editor, she acquired and edited literary fiction and non-fiction, and as an agent has added children's fiction to her list. She is always on the lookout for sharp, original voices. Sarah sits on the board of non-profit progressive publisher the New Press and lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn.

Stephanie Cabot
Half French, half American, Stephanie was educated in Europe and in the US where she majored in History at Harvard. Her agenting career began in London and spent nine years at the William Morris - London, the last five as Managing Director where she built a list of international bestselling and prize-winning authors. She moved back to the States in 2005, joined The Gernert Company, and is now selectively adding writers from a variety of genres, including commercial and literary fiction, latte lit, and non-fiction. She is especially interested in writers who tell original stories with strong narratives and create distinctive characters. She spends her weekends working on a family dairy farm with her husband and four children.

Seth Fishman
Seth joined The Gernert Company in 2010 after beginning his career as an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Born in Midland, Texas, he graduated from Princeton University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. His interests are wide-ranging, but they boil down in particular to literary and commercial fiction, popular (fun) science, young adult, humor, sci-fi/fantasy and graphic novels (of both a traditional and literary bent).

Rebecca Gardner
Rebecca joined The Gernert Company in 2009 as Rights Director after four years at Random House, Inc., first as the Director of Foreign Rights for The Doubleday Publishing Group, and then as V.P. & Director of Subsidiary Rights for The Random House Publishing Group. She has worked for BBC Books and for Maria B. Campbell Associates where she scouted books for foreign publishers and film. Rebecca takes a boat to work and lives with her husband on the Jersey Shore.

Logan Garrison
Logan joined the Gernert Company in 2010 after three years as an English and Musical Theatre teacher at Northern High School in Durham, North Carolina. A native of the South and a graduate of both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, she currently lives in Brooklyn and has a particular interest in fiction for children and young adults.

Courtney Gatewood
Courtney joined The Gernert Company in 2006 after several years at Maria B. Campbell Associates where she scouted US books for publication in translation abroad and for adaptation to film. She works on Foreign Rights and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Chris Parris-Lamb
Chris joined The Gernert Company in 2005. He was born in Alabama and grew up in North Carolina, where he attended UNC-Chapel Hill on a Morehead Scholarship. His enthusiasms include, but are not limited to, running, fly-fishing, Bill Evans circa 1961, and great writing by smart writers. His nonfiction tastes encompass a wide variety of genres and subjects, and his fiction tastes incline toward the literary. He prefers queries to be accompanied by a sample chapter or two.

Will Roberts
Will joined the team in 2008 after working at Vintage Books and, before that, at a newspaper in Jackson, WY. A graduate of Middlebury College, he currently lives in Brooklyn where he's trying to get better at the mandolin. He works on Foreign Rights, handling the Eastern European and Asian territories, and his main interests are history, politics, and literary fiction with a dark, humorous bent.

Erika Storella
Erika joined the agency in 2005 after completing a MA in social science at the University of Chicago. Her graduate work sparked an interest in how new ideas are brought to the public and led her to pursue a career in publishing. Originally from Boston, she now resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where her personal library includes literary fiction and memoir, as well as works on history, contemporary art and theory, sociology, and crafts.

Anna Worrall
Anna joined The Gernert Company as an assistant in 2010. After graduating from New York University with a degree in history, she worked in publishing in her native Philadelphia before moving to Hungary to teach conversational English. Anna lives in Park Slope, and her interests include historical and women's fiction.