Meet Our agents

Industry veteran, Carrie Howland, has over twenty years of experience as a literary agent. She founded Howland Literary, LLC in 2018.

Carrie holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Albion College, where she was the Poetry Editor of The Albion Review. Her poetry has appeared in various literary journals and magazines. Carrie has been actively involved in animal rescue for decades. Her passions include parenting, psychology, music, pop culture, and the Midwest. She has been featured in several publications discussing her work as an agent including Poets & Writers, SCWBI insight, Akashic Books, and Slice Magazine.

Carrie is accepting submissions for: adult literary, upmarket, and commercial fiction as well as memoir, narrative and prescriptive non-fiction, and cookbooks.

Zoe-Aline Howard joined Howland Literary while earning her BFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Certificate at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She has had the privilege to work across publishing in multiple capacities, including an internship at Lookout Books, and her current role as a literary publicist at Pine State Publicity. After five years in Wilmington, NC, she's looking for the next place to call home. 

Zoe-Aline represents adult fiction and nonfiction. 

Gabriela Laracuente Sanchez had the opportunity to join the Howland team as an intern while completing a BA in English: Editing, Writing, and Media with a minor in Women’s Studies from Florida State University. She was also the Editor in Chief of The Experience and Editorial Assistant of the Kudzu Review during this time. These experiences led her to help authors navigate building a business and speaker brand alongside a book. Gabriela has since rejoined the Howland team and represents adult fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Dickinson, Texas. 

Gabriela represents adult fiction and select nonfiction.

Rebecca Angus began her publishing career as an editorial intern at Entangled Publishing, and moved into an agent role shortly after, building her list of authors. After a few years away to take care of her family during the pandemic, Rebecca is excited to return to publishing. 

As a reading teacher at a Title-One campus in San Antonio, Texas, Rebecca primarily works with at-risk youth with limited access to books, and little motivation to read outside of the classroom. This was the primary reason Rebecca was motivated to return to agenting. 

Rebecca represents picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult projects. 

Ashlee MacCallum joined Howland Literary after interning at Triada US. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies and a master’s in Education. 

Ashlee lives in Nevada with her husband and two children. By day, she’s a high school English teacher who assigns cool books, reads powerful essays, and makes her students dramatically reenact Macbeth. Outside the classroom, Ashlee writes picture books, chapter books, and middle grade novels. She is represented by Amanda Carbonell at Belcastro Agency.

Ashlee represents picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult fiction.

  Esty holds a BFA in creative writing from Ringling College of Art + Design and an MFA in fiction from Queens University of Charlotte. Aside from serving as creative writing adjunct faculty at her alma mater, she interned at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Tobias Literary Agency, and ArtHouse Literary Agency before becoming an Associate Literary Agent at ArtHouse in 2023 until that agency’s close in 2025, when she joined Howland Literary Agency. Esty is looking for romance in adult, new adult, or YA spaces, upmarket fiction, adult or YA grounded fantasy, and literary fiction. Before working in publishing, Esty worked as a pediatric LPN. At home, she has five children, three dogs, one husband, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Esty represents young adult and adult fiction.