Rayhané Sanders [SOLD OUT OF PITCH APPOINTMENTS] is a literary agent with Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents.

Rayhané attended NYU and began her publishing career at Newsweek. She then moved to book publishing, working first for Penguin’s Dutton and Gotham Books and then for Wayne Kabak’s WSK Management and William Morris Endeavor, where she worked with New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors and broadcast journalists. She is a member of the American Association of Literary Agents (formerly AAR).

She represents literary, historical, and book club fiction, including short story collections; narrative nonfiction; memoir; and essay collections.

Her authors include bestselling and award-winning authors Lidia Yuknavitch, Te-Ping Chen, Janet Beard, Matthew Gavin Frank, Daisy Hernández, and more. She likes projects that are voice-centered and site-specific, whether that be a place, profession, culture, or subculture.

Though quality of writing is the most important factor, she is particularly interested in fresh voices telling fresh stories we haven’t heard before and is fond of immigrant stories and stories concerned with race, sexuality, cross-cultural themes, and notions of identity.