Elise Proulx is an associate at San Francisco's Frederick Hill/Bonnie Nadell Agency, associate editor at The Threepenny Review and on the executive committee of Litquake, San Francisco's premiere literary festival. Elise was previously an agent at Lowenstein Associates and an assistant editor at Henry Holt and Owl Books and has worked for Spin Magazine and Fox News. She is especially interested in timely literary fiction; quirky fiction, including women's fiction; mysteries and crime fiction; travel narratives; history; narrative non-fiction; journalism; and books on health, science, medicine, and the environment.
Her clients include Gary Amdahl (Pushcart Prize-winning author, Visigoth), Dr. Emily Morton (Stanford Medical Center), Associated Press reporter Scott Lindlaw, and novelist and short story writer Karen Brown (O. Henry Award winner). The agency's clients include David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest), Sen. Barbara Boxer (A Time to Run), Antonya Nelson (Some Fun), Domenic Stansberry (Edgar-winning author of The Confession), Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Sonia Nazario, and many other award-winning journalists and fiction writers.