Kesia Lupo joined Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2024 after 11 years working across

the publishing industry. She started out as an editorial assistant at Pan Macmillan

London in 2013, transitioning to children’s fiction in 2015 when she moved to Chicken

House (a UK imprint of Scholastic), where she worked her way up from junior to senior

editor. Here she acquired and edited bestselling, internationally successful and prize-

winning fiction for middle-grade and YA readers. In 2023 she transitioned over to the US

and agenting, working with the Bindery Agency before finding a home with DMLA.