
Cody Caetano, Literary Agent
Cody is actively seeking
Literary fiction
Non-fiction
Cody is currently not seeking
YA, Middle Grade, and Children’s literature
Most genre-based manuscripts
Cody represents award-winning and bestselling authors of literary fiction and nonfiction. He joined CookeMcDermid in 2022 after starting his career at Transatlantic Agency. He holds an MA in English in the field of Creative Writing and a BA in English and Professional Writing & Communication from the University of Toronto.
Since 2018, Cody has contributed to the literary community through talks, workshops, and programming. He has judged major literary contests, served as a Writer in Residence for the Whistler Writers Festival, and is on the board of directors for the Toronto International Festival of Authors. He has also participated in several Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity residencies.
Cody is Anishinaabe, Portuguese, and an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. His memoir, HALF-BADS IN WHITE REGALIA, debuted as a national bestseller, won two Indigenous Voices Awards, and was longlisted for Canada Reads, the Toronto Book Award, the Leacock Medal for Humour, and the Edna Staebler Award.
Cody’s Represented Books and Authors Includes
2023 Bronwen Wallace Award winner, PhD candidate, and U.S. Army veteran Zak Jones’ FANCY GAP, a debut novel set in the eponymous mountain region connecting North Carolina to Virginia, following a troubled family—the less-than-honorably discharged Corporal Dalton Fuquay and his teen brother Messiah, whom Dalton must save from their dangerous grandmother and the self-radicalized, born-again muster of acolytes she commands—being torn apart by mental and physical illness, opioid addiction, and poverty
US English rights to Conor Kerr's PRAIRIE EDGE, in which Métis kin, one trapped by circumstance in a semi-criminal rut and the other disillusioned with performative activist culture, hatch on a dangerous yet bold political mission—freeing a herd of bison onto the sprawling concrete of downtown Edmonton—and then must deal with the fateful and fatal consequences that follow…
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