Our Team
Claire Draper
Founder and Agent
Claire Draper began their career in 2016, working as an assistant and later literary agent at InkWell Management, the Bent Agency, and Azantian Literary Agency before founding Au Literary Management in 2025. A graduate of NYU Gallatin, Claire studied Queer Diversity in Children’s Literature as an undergraduate and worked for a brief stint as a bookseller at the Strand Bookstore. Claire started wanting to work in and around books as early as high school, when they fell in love with reading and writing after a friend took them to see Twilight. They spent all their time (and savings) at Borders and the local library and on fanfic.net after that.
Claire represents adult romance, graphic novels, young adult, nonfiction, memoir, and select picture books. They prefer to work with books that are funny, lighthearted, romantic, and hopeful, with a fast pace, high stakes, and strong emotional development for the main characters. Refer to our submission guidelines for a more detailed look at their wishlist.
Klaudia is an entertainment analyst and producer whose wide breadth of experience across different types of media gives her cutting edge insight into how to develop IP for modern audiences. From running newsroom social media to analyzing audience insights for the anime industry, Klaudia understands how creators can turn the modern attention economy to their benefit. She has also been a part of every step of the creative process, so she can work at the nexus between artists’ needs and market forces.
Her approach to content strategy is rooted in a deep belief that every piece of media has an audience, and the right marketing and distribution strategy can help creatives and media companies find or create it. At Au Literary Management, her goal is to enable clients to focus on the creative process, while she handles how to package their art for audiences.
Klaudia Amenabar
VP of Client IP Strategy