Ellen Goff

Profile

Ellen Goff graduated from The University of Chicago with degrees in English, Cinema and Media Studies, and a focus in Creative Writing. Ellen has worked everywhere from The White House under the Obama administration to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At HG Literary, she assists managing partner and agent Carrie Hannigan on all children’s titles from picture books to middle grade to young adult. Ellen’s own list consists of YA authors, illustrators, as well as middle grade and picture book authors, and even the exceptional adult fiction writer. She is also a member of HG Literary’s foreign rights team. For picture books, Ellen looks for author-illustrators and projects that highlight the sparse and simple. She is interested in all genres and formats of YA, especially anything spooky, historical fiction, martial arts-related, graphic novels, and novels-in-verse. Ellen might be convinced on a nonfiction project if it involves food. She has a soft spot for Shakespeare as well as southern stories that remind her of her home state of Kentucky.

Ellen runs a YA writing critique group and workshop in NYC.