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Keir Alekseii
Azantian Literary Agency
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Keir Alekseii is an associate agent with Azantian Literary Agency. She is an educator and anti-GBV activist born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island country in the West Indies. Keir is a writer, gamer, lover of folklore, and former research scientist. As a neurodivergent, queer woman of color, Keir is invested in discovering engaging work with similar representation, and is passionate about creating space for voices not often recognized. She is especially interested in stories from BIPOC who are born and raised in the Global South. **Keir is seeking YA & Adult SFF and YA contemporary. She is ONLY open to receiving queries from writers from marginalized backgrounds such as (but not limited to) those who identify as BIPOC/BAME, LGBTQ+, ND, and DIS.** Her favorite traits and tropes include: In YA contemporary, she is looking for books in the vein of TJ POWAR HAS SOMETHING TO PROVE where the romance is secondary but identity and self-love are primary. Keir would also love work like ICEBREAKER, with queer love and found family. She has a fondness for disaster bi/pan characters, being one herself, and appreciates seeing diverse representations of queerness. She’d also love to read more books with nonbinary characters and love that runs deep even without a romantic element (yes, that means aro characters and stories with friendships that don’t turn romantic are welcome). In fantasy, she loves immersive worlds that pull her in from the first page, like THE DAEVABAD TRILOGY and particularly enjoys secondary worlds that are based outside of western cultures like THE JASMINE THRONE. You’ll be even more likely to catch her eye if you’re West Indian or West Indian diaspora, drawing from Caribbean culture and mythology. In general, Keir would love to see more fae books with BIPOC leads that use fae and folktales from non-western cultures, like TRESE. She particularly enjoys characters with strong internal conflicts, like in THE SUN SWORD SERIES and GEARBREAKERS, who wrangle with the consequences of others’ actions while fighting for (or maintaining) their autonomy. She also loves adult characters who must clean up generational messes, thereby healing from generational traumas or otherwise breaking cycles. Keir loves complex, smart, emotional characters that aren’t afraid to take on oppressive systems, like in KAIKEYI, and who find their voice and a purpose by the end of a story, like in RAYBEARER. She would love to see more books with unapologetic characters like in IRON WIDOW. Retellings or reimaginings with these characteristics are welcome, especially those which draw from underrepresented cultures. In science fiction, Keir is primarily interested in seeing SF settings that force us to explore the human condition, like the XUYA UNIVERSE or THE SPACE BETWEEN WORLDS. She also likes to keep it weird with works like SNOWCRASH and is always intrigued by how the alternate lives/worlds offered by gaming, virtual and augmented reality might inform ou
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Please query me via Query Manager with your query letter, a synopsis of 750 words or less (1 single-spaced page is ideal) and the first 10 pages of your manuscript. Please include any content and trigger warnings in your query. Vital Info @keiralekseii Website
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