Renee Alcantara

Renee joined the Transatlantic Agency as a literary assistant in 2024, after building a well-rounded foundation in publishing through roles in agenting, scouting, and magazine production. Through her work supporting the desks of Senior Agents Amanda Orozco and Brenna English-Loeb, she’s worked with a wide range of dynamic and groundbreaking writers including Kay Chronister (The Bog Wife), Mathilda Zeller (It Looks Like You In The Dark) and Genoveva Dimova (Foul Days; Monstrous Nights).

A 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop alumnus, she graduated magna cum laude from Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in creative writing, concentration in creative nonfiction. Proudly hailing from Antipolo, Philippines, she is now based in Los Angeles. When she’s not reading, you can find her lifting weights, perfecting her focaccia recipe, and starting (!) crochet projects.

Renee is building a select list of clients in tandem with her mentors at the agency. Her mandates include hooky, high-concept adult fiction with a focus on elevated but accessible writing. She’s drawn to quirky, strange and subversive narratives that are literary in their sensibilities but commercial in their execution. Horror, suspense & thriller, and grounded speculative fiction are of especially high priority. In non-fiction, she’s looking for cultural commentary and pop culture analysis that blends intensive reportage and expertise with personal narrative. She hopes to make her list a platform for underserved voices in publishing, and especially those from beyond North America.

A few of Renee’s favorite recent reads:

• Sky Daddy by Kate Folk
• The New People by Andrea Uptmor
• Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap
• Honey In the Wound by Jiyoung Han
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM