Melissa Chinchillo

Melissa Chinchillo joined the agency in 2004, after ten years of teaching literature, women’s studies and film at universities in New York and Boston. She is the agency’s Director of Foreign Rights and manages rights for select clients of 3 Arts Entertainment and IT Revolution. With an eclectic list of clients ranging from philosophers and historians to literary horror writers and syndicated cartoonists, Melissa’s clients include Gordon Chang’s Ghosts of Gold Mountain (HMH), Douglas Smith’s Rasputin (FSG), Aaron James’ Assholes: A Theory (Doubleday), Jonathan Howard’s five-book series Johannes Cabal The Necromancer (Doubleday & Thomas Dunne), and Dave Coverly’s Night of the Living Worms (Holt), the first in his “Speed Bump & Slingshot Misadvanture” middle grade series. Melissa holds a BA and MA from Simmons College and is ABD in the PhD program at SUNY Stony Brook, where she also earned graduate teaching certifications in women’s studies and film studies.