Faculty Spotlight

Miriam Goderich

Visiting Agent

Miriam Goderich is a partner at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, LLC, a New York based literary agency with an impressive and diverse client list. She and Jane Dystel work closely as an agenting team to generate book ideas, help create book proposals, place projects with publishing companies, and negotiate all contracts pertaining to publishing and subsidiary rights. In addition, Miriam is an insightful editor who has been responsible for developing numerous fiction and non-fiction projects from the conceptual stage to publication. Miriam’s areas of interest include: literary and commercial fiction as well as some genre fiction, narrative nonfiction, pop culture, psychology, history, science, art, business books, and biography/memoir. Miriam received a BA in Comparative Literature and an MA in English from Columbia University.