Leila Campoli

Leila Campoli started her career in 2011 as an editor at Palgrave Macmillan. After four years of championing authors from the publishing side of the business, she took the plunge into agenting. Spurred by a desire to say “yes” more often and a love of early-stage book development, she started building a list of authors poised to change the world with shared vulnerability and groundbreaking ideas.

Leila continues to fight for authors and help them bring their ideas to fruition—not just focusing on the first book, but entire literary careers. She believes in advocating marginalized voices, counterintuitive ideas, and unique styles. She works with writers of science, business, economics, lifestyle, current events, pop culture, and literary and upmarket fiction. In nonfiction, she’s particularly interested in books that offer a window into remarkable lives and ways of living. In fiction, she looks for speculative, genre-bending literary, and upmarket fiction, weird fiction leaning into horror or satire and stories set in extreme environments.

Her clients include Samantha Allen (Patricia Wants to Cuddle), Dolly Chugh (The Person You Mean to Be), Sandra Matz (Mindmasters), Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (The Black Agenda), Catherine Bracy (World Eaters), Y-Vonne Hutchinson (How to Talk to Your Boss About Race), and Ximena Vengoechea (Listen Like You Mean It and The Life Audit).