Aurora Fernandez is an Associate Agent at Trident Media Group. She joined the agency in 2021 as an assistant to Robert Gottlieb. Before joining Trident, Aurora was an intern at Simone Garzella International Book Scouting and attended the Columbia Publishing Course. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology with a concentration in Political Science from Wellesley College and spent a year studying at St. Peter’s College, Oxford University.

Aurora is open to submissions and excited to work with authors. Aurora is looking for commercial and upmarket fiction, particularly narratives with a romantic or fantastical thread. She loves all things romance from the smart and sexy romcoms of Ali Hazelwood and Jessica Joyce to the heartfelt love stories of Emily Henry to romantasy à la Danielle L. Jensen and Kristen Ciccarelli. Some favorite tropes of hers are forced proximity, rivals-to-lovers, and yearning love interests and she’d love to see works by writers who cut their teeth in fanfiction. She is also interested in select thrillers in the vein of Megan Miranda.

For upmarket and book club fiction, she is especially drawn to narratives with interesting female dynamics, moral dilemmas with no clearcut answer, and, of course, a unique hook backed by great writing. She would love to see works similar to Megan Abbott, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Taylor Jenkins Reid. And anything involving retellings (myths or classics) will definitely catch her eye!

While Aurora’s interests mainly lie in fiction, she is open to nonfiction submissions. For nonfiction submissions, Aurora is looking for select memoirs, narrative nonfictions, and essay collections. Particular topics that interest her are pop culture, modern dating, women’s issues, and respectful true crime like WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE by Becky Cooper.