Our Team
Catherine worked alongside founder Anne Louise Fisher for ten years before taking over the company in 2015, on Anne Louise's retirement. Previously, she was managing director of Granta, deputy managing director of Chatto & Windus, and also worked at Transworld and at the literary agency Aitken & Stone (now Aitken Alexander).
Eva, who is German, worked as a freelance editor for Ullstein, and previously at Mohrbooks Agency in Berlin. Apart from German and English, she also reads French and Italian. She joined the team in 2019 to scout UK books.
Francesca joined the team in 2019 to work with non-English language books. She is Italian, and also reads French, Spanish, Portuguese, Icelandic and Japanese. Among other things, she has worked at the translation rights department at Curtis Brown, and had a temporary position at another scouting agency in the UK.
Jennifer, who is American, worked for fourteen years at literary agency A M Heath, ten of them as rights director. She joined Eccles Fisher in 2019 as head of the UK scouting.
Lucy first interned at Eccles Fisher in 2016, following which she joined literary agency Peters Frasers and Dunlop. She returned in 2018 after completing a Master of Research (MRes) in literature at The University of Edinburgh.
Marzena joined from the Laura Cecil Literary Agency, and previously Andrew Nurnberg Associates, to scout children’s and YA books. She is Polish, and also reads German and Russian.
Thais moved to London after being an editor at Companhia das Letras in Brazil. After working in foreign rights at literary agency Andrew Nurnberg Associates, she joined the team in February 2015. She is responsible for the non-English language scouting, and reads Portuguese and Spanish.