Vintage

Alyssa Eisner Henkin is a 1998 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Radcliffe Publishing Course. Before joining Trident, she spent over seven years as an editor in the children’s division at Simon & Schuster where she edited the New York Times bestselling Little Quack, The Theodore Seuss Geisel Award recipient, Henry and Mudge, and the acclaimed The Wedding Planner’s Daughter.
 

In December of 2006 Alyssa joined Trident Media Group as an agent for children’s books with an emphasis on contemporary middle grade, tween, and young adult novels. She is actively growing her client list, and seeks humorous voices, regional flavors, adventures, school stories, reality-based fantasies, tales of first love, and mysteries.
 

Upcoming titles include: Amaranth, a tween fantasy novel about a young girl who reclaims her birthright in an enchanted kingdom, recipient of the Vermont College MFA, 2007 Prize (Bloomsbury Children’s) by Julie Berry; Canterwood Crest, a tween series about a young equestrian who learns to compete with her school’s riding elite (Simon & Schuster) by Jessica Burkhart; My Life In Pink & Green, a tween debut about a seventh grader who finds a way to save the family business and the environment, too (Amulet / Abrams Books) by Lisa Greenwald; Homelanders, a young adult series about a teenager who must thwart the assassination of the Secretary of State and protect America from terrorists (Thomas Nelson) by Andrew Klavan; Across The Fence: A Fictional WWII Scrapbook (Marshall Cavendish) by Beverly Patt; Identical Crisis, a tween trilogy about identical twins who switch schedules, lockers, and lives (Simon & Schuster) by acclaimed Yellow Star author Jennifer Roy and her twin sister Julia DeVillers; and One of The Survivors, a young adult novel about healing and redemption in the aftermath of a school fire (Simon & Schuster) by  Susan Shaw.