Victoria Harris (they/them/theirs) is a literary agent with The Caldwell Agency.

Their heart belongs to stories written by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors. Victoria is primarily seeking literary fiction, upmarket fiction, and queer romance. They are also open to soft sci-fi (grounded, set in the near future) and literary-leaning historical fiction (set in the recent past).

Before joining The Caldwell Agency, Victoria worked in the editorial department of Oxford University Press for over six years. They have an MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In their downtime, they like to write (currently working on a novel) and perform with their band (Late Stage Dirtbags). Victoria lives in Southern California with their chosen family: their wife, one of their best friends, and their one-eyed chihuahua, Bug.

Things Victoria is drawn to in stories:

• BIPOC characters
• LGBTQ+ characters
• mentally ill characters
• neurodivergent characters
• chronically ill and physically disabled characters
• characters who’ve had difficult childhoods
• characters who are repressed
• characters who’ve felt like outsiders for their whole lives
• characters who want something or someone desperately
• coming of age stories (traditional and late-stage)
• dysfunctional family dynamics
• chosen family and close friendships (whether wholesome, complicated, or toxic)
• friends to lovers

They are not a good fit for:
• White, male, cishet* protagonists
• Stories without people of color
• Cishet* romance
• Sports romance
• Fake dating
• Science fiction set in the distant future, on a version of earth that is unrecognizable, or in space
• Fantasy
• Action/adventure
*cishet = cisgender and heterosexual

Some of their favorite books published within the past decade:
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
• Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston