Jennifer Chen Tran
Glass Literary Management
My Manuscript Wish List®
Jennifer Chen Tran is a literary agent at Glass Literary Management. With over a dozen years of experience in the publishing industry, Jennifer is passionate about nurturing and championing the creative lives of the authors and artists she is honored to represent. She works with a wide range of award-winning talent, including entrepreneurs, journalists, physicians, thought leaders, James Beard nominated chefs, and graphic novelists, among others. Jennifer is an editorial agent who believes in the art and magic of collaboration. She works with her authors from concept to publication, helping to polish each creator’s work so that it can best shine in a competitive marketplace.
Prior to joining Glass Literary Management, Jennifer was a literary agent at Folio Literary Management and Idea Architects and served as Of Counsel at The New Press. She obtained her Juris Doctor from Northeastern School of Law and a Bachelors in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. She is an attorney in good standing in California and New York, a member of the Authors Guild, and a member of the Association of American Literary Agents.
As a person of color and daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Jennifer is deeply committed to amplifying voices from persons with disabilities, BIPOC, LGBTQ, underrepresented, marginalized, and neurodiverse communities. Her ultimate goal is to work in concert with authors to create books that will have a lasting positive social impact on the world—books that inform, entertain, and inspire.
Her current #MSWL includes culinary projects, hidden narratives about an unseen aspect of the world, riveting stories about overcoming adversity, and health, wellness, financial peace, and spirituality by BIPOC, neurodiverse, and underrepresented creatives. For adult fiction, Jen is looking for contemporary fiction, women’s fiction, and upmarket fiction that features complicated, conflicted, and complex characters who are not afraid to take emotional risks, page-turning suspense, and stories–genre elements encouraged!–that keep you guessing.
In the children’s space she loves #middlegrade with heart, humor, surprises, and unforgettable but relatable characters that will make kids laugh and curious to read more. She’s always on the look-out for incredible visually-driven and graphic novel projects, and is taking on select picture-book projects with an eye toward subjects with STEAM elements, history, and stories featuring animals, nature, and natural phenomena.
Submission Guidelines
I only accept queries via referral or Query Manager. Please query me here: https://querymanager.com/query/jct
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
"Big Idea/Think", #Dis, #ownvoices, #wndb, 'big think', Accessible Literary Fiction, Activism, Adult, Adventure, Asian American Literature, Asian Diaspora, BIPOC, Biography & Memoir, Book Club, Business, California, Chick Lit, Chicklit, Children's, Children's Nonfiction, Children's and Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction, Classic retellings with BIPOC characters, Commercial MG, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial YA, Complicated Relationships, Contemporary YA, Contemporary Young Adult, Diaspora Narratives, Disability, Domestic Fiction, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Suspense/Thriller, Drink, Female Friendships, Feminist, Food, Found Families, Funny MG, Gaming, Geek Culture, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels (for all ages), Humor, Humor YA, Illustrated, Illustrated/Gift, Illustration (for all ages), Illustrators and Author/Illustrators, Immigrant Experiences, Immigrant Voices, Inspirational Memoir, LGBT YA, LGBTQ Contemporary, MG Action Adventure, MG Nonfiction, MG contemporary, MG/YA, Middle Grade, Middle Grade Adventure, Middle Grade Contemporary, Middle Grade Graphic Novels, Mind/Body/Spirit, Minority Voices, Multigenerational, Narrative, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature, Nature Writing, Neurodiversity, Nonfiction Picture Books, Parenting, Social Emotional Learning, Social Issues, South Asian, Speculative, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Middle Grade, Upmarket Nonfiction, Upmarket Women's Fiction, Upmarket YA, YA Rom-Coms, YA RomCom, YA/MG graphic novel, action-packed graphic novels, activity books, bad at feelings, beach reads, book club fiction, children's graphic novels, comedy, coming of age, commercial middle grade, cook book, crossover, crossover adult, crossover appeal, diasporic, diverse, diverse and own voices, epistolary novels, fiction and non-fiction picture books, found family, friendship, ghost story, immigration, interactive, memoir, middle grade non-fiction, music, narrative non-fiction, narrative non-fiction YA/MG, nonfiction
I’d like the next…
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (adult fiction), Texture Over Taste by Joshua Weissman (cookbook), First Generation by Frankie Gaw (cookbook), The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (children’s graphic novel), Hidden Potential by Adam Grant (non-fiction pop psych).
