About Andrea
Andrea Cascardi is a literary agent with the Transatlantic Literary Agency. Her client list includes more than two dozen illustrators and authors of books for toddlers through young adults and has sold books to Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Dutton, Little, Brown and other major publishers.
Prior to becoming an agent Andrea was, for more than twenty years, a children's book editor. She began her career at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston, eventually moving to New York where she worked in editorial positions at several houses, including Hyperion and Knopf, where she was Associate Publishing Director for Children's Books.
Andrea has taught in the graduate publishing program at Pace University. She holds an M.S. in Mass Communications from Boston University.