Kim Carson Bodie
Associate Agent
Kim joined Susan Schulman in 2025 after years of working thematically and geographically scattered jobs that mostly involved taking words out of the air and putting them on paper. She is a former journalist, university creative writing instructor, CutBank Fiction Editor, and Coffee House Press Editorial Intern.
Kim is interested in reading adult commercial, upmarket, and literary fiction, horror, slipstream, bookclub-with-an-edge, creative nonfiction, pop culture, essay, and select memoir—particularly projects that feature strong voice, experimental structure, bold risks, and big swings. Kim gravitates toward themes of adolescence, monstrosity, class, innocence, memory, healing, freakishness, community, otherness, identity, the body, the natural world, and the concept of home.
Kim received her MFA from the University of Montana, where you can still find her gathering dirt under her fingernails, between the pages of her books, and in the cracks of her computer keyboard. She can usually be spotted alongside her dog, Townes Van Dog.
Kim’s manuscript wish list can be found here. She is currently accepting query submissions. Please review our agency submission guidelines before sending your work to kim at schulman agency dot com.
Please keep in mind:
I do not represent YA, MG, or children’s books. I’m open to NA.
I welcome #OwnVoices projects and am particularly interested in representing authors from diverse backgrounds.
I will read anything that takes place at a carnival.
Please send me weird westerns.
I’m probably not the best fit for high fantasy or other speculative projects without grounded elements, in addition to pure romance or thrillers, with the exception of projects that use suspense or genre as a tool to examine surprising social, scientific, cultural, or political elements of the world at large.
My Clients
Katie Beers
Katie Beers holds an M.A. in British and American Literature from NYU and has spent nearly 15 years teaching writing. She writes nonfiction that sits at the crossroads of Memoir, Self-Help, and Spirituality, blending practical guidance with heartfelt (and occasionally humorous) storytelling to help readers find healing, wholeness, and soulful connection with their truest selves. A licensed Reiki Master Teacher and daily meditator, she splits her time between New Jersey and Miami Beach, where she can usually be found by the ocean, swimming or else reading way too many books at the same time.
Caroline Hagood is the author of eight books. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, The Kenyon Review, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Salon, and Elle. She is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing, and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn.
Jeanette S. Jouili is a Tunisian-German writer and scholar with a PhD in Sociology/Anthropology who is deeply interested in Muslim communities in Europe, race and migration, and North Africa’s postcolonial cultural formations. After living in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, she has worked in the United States for the past fifteen years, moving through several states along the East Coast. She is currently an Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and a 2024–2025 Fellow of the BookEnds Novel Revision Program at Stony Brook University.
C.R. Wolfe
C.R. Wolfe writes speculative fiction that grapples with questions of humanity, the environment, and our place in it. They’ll never build a world that isn’t queernormative. When they’re not writing, they’re walking the dog, yapping with friends, or staring at the moon. C.R. lives in the sunny southwest with their wife, on the same street as their favorite vegan restaurant and several of their best friends.
Zara Marielle grew up in two worlds: a hippy town in Northern California, and a rural village in the French Alps. A lifelong traveler, Zara has also lived in Venezuela, Canada, and the UK. In 2015, she earned her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. When she’s not writing empowering female-focused fantasy, she spends her time teaching and performing improv, traveling, and hugging large dogs. Her upcoming adult contemporary fantasy, The Café of Infinite Doors, comes out in April 2026.
Marcelle Perks is a UK writer and journalist based in Germany. She has written for a range of film magazines and books, and has worked for the British Film Institute and TV/film magazine publisher Visual Imagination. She has written non-fiction books and is the author of the short story collection Bare Souls and the thriller novel Night Driver. She is fascinated by both cutting edge science and medical history, and these themes find their way into her fiction. As a horror fan, inevitably her stories are dark, and she has a keen interest in all things supernatural.
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