Storm Literary Agency

Boutique literary agency representing quality literature from exceptional authors and illustrators

First, there was a  teacher who loved books almost as much as she loved little children. Then, there was an artist who loved pirates, almost as much as he loved cats. As it turns out, that artist could also write, and that teacher loved the pirate stories he wrote. And she shared those stories with the children she taught. The children loved the pirate stories; they also loved the cats. They wanted more stories with pirates and cats. They also wanted an adventure. And the stories gave them so many adventures. And that is that: Storm Literary Agency came about because it needed to. The children requested it. And so did the cats. 

Storm Literary Agency welcomes submissions from unique and talented authors and illustrators, those who are not afraid to embrace their capacity to teach, to entertain, to engage and to honor people, young and old, who hopefully, will be changed by the work represented here.

Erika Romero

 

Erika’s love for writing began as a child, when she drafted stories of time travel and magic and saved them on her own, carefully protected, floppy disk. But it was in college when she realized that she could study and teach children’s and young adult literature as a career. After earning her B.A. and M.A. in English, she taught writing and children’s and YA literature to undergraduate students while earning her PhD. 

After completing her PhD, Erika returned to writing stories for children. As the child and grandchild of Cuban immigrants, she hopes to increase Latinx representation in children’s literature through her stories of precocious children and their loving intergenerational families.

Erika was a 2024 Round Table mentee and a PBChat 2022 mentee. She has an academic article published in the journal, Transformative Works and Cultures, as well as a chapter in the edited collection, Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms.