TRIDENT MEDIA GROUP, LLC

Melissa Flashman grew up in Kentucky, graduated from Wesleyan University and studied in the Ph.D. program in English at Johns Hopkins. She represents narrative and serious non-fiction, including memoir, popular science, political, business/economics, technology, pop-culture books and select fiction, including young adult. Recent and upcoming titles include:
UNTITLED book on the emerging cultural ecosystem (Metropolitan Books) by filmmaker Astra Taylor; WHAT’S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? (Bloomsbury Press) by filmmaker John de Graaf and economist David Batker; THE WHITE LIE (Gallery), a novel by best-selling author Pamela Redmond Satran; MADNESS TO METHOD: 7 OBSESSIONS FOR TOMORROW’S ENTREPRENEURS by Method founders Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry (Portfolio); AND THE HEART SAYS WHATEVER (Free Press) by Emily Gould; ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism (Palgrave) by Yves Smith; THE CONSOLATIONS OF JUDGMENT (FSG) by Megan Hustad; HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE (HarperCollins) by Stanley Fish; RICH PEOPLE THINGS (O/R Books) by Chris Lehmann; THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND THE UNDEAD (Tor) by Don Borchert; THE SEVEN LAWS OF MAGICAL THINKING (Hudson Street Press) by Matthew Hutson; SEX AT DAWN: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (HarperCollins) by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá; THE RENEGADE SPORTSMAN: Drunken Runners, Bike Polo Superstars, Roller Derby Rebels, Killer Birds and Other Uncommon Thrills on the Wild Frontier of Sports (Riverhead) by Zach Dundas; NERVE: Poise under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool (Little, Brown and Company) by Taylor Clark; and the POSEUR Series (Poppy) by Rachel Maude.
She has also sold essays and fiction to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Paris Review, American Scholar, Chronicle Review, American Prospect, O Magazine, The Baffler, Salon, Slate, Granta, n + 1 and Tin House among others.