Adriana Dominguez represents award-winning illustrators including John Parra, a New York Times Best Illustrator and recipient of three Pura Belpré Honors, Kirkus Prize finalist Jaqueline Alcántara, and Orbis Pictus Honor recipient Juliet Menéndez. Her author list includes NAACP Image Award winner Katheryn Russell Brown, Pura Belpré Honor recipient Angela Cervantes and Emmy Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.
Adriana has wide-ranging experience in publishing; she began her editorial career at Scholastic in the 1990s, served as Children’s Reviews Editor at Críticas Magazine (Library Journal), and as Executive Editor at HarperCollins, where she led the children’s division of the Latinx-focused Rayo imprint. She has a long trajectory of supporting authors and illustrators from underrepresented backgrounds and always welcomes submissions that offer a diverse point of view.
Adriana is interested in illustrators with fresh, unmistakable styles, platform-driven narrative nonfiction from children to adult, and select children’s fiction from picture books to middle grade. She is based in New York.
Adriana only accepts submissions via Query Manager: https://QueryManager.com/2243
AXO
Lety Out Loud
Anomalies 53 #1 and #2
Untitled Spooky Middle Grade Novel
Still Dreaming/Seguimos soñando
Not A Monster
Detained
Reina Ramos Works it Out
Reina Ramos Encuentra La Solución
Martina Has Too Many Tías
¡Viva Valenzuela! Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles
Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Women in the Civil Rights Movement
What A Rock Can Reveal