Sara Aldrich is the literary assistant to Brent Taylor at July First Literary, where she works across the editorial and administrative sides of agenting and has been part of the agency since day one.

Sara first began working with Brent as an intern in 2024 before becoming his literary assistant in 2026. A graduate of Hamilton College, where she studied neuroscience and creative writing, she spent four years working in an academic research lab studying addiction genetics before following her literary passions. She also holds a master’s degree in science writing from Johns Hopkins University.

Since joining Brent’s team, Sara has provided editorial feedback on multiple bestselling titles and supports July First authors throughout the drafting and publishing process. Her work spans everything from developmental editing and author-editor communication to the many moving pieces that happen behind the scenes of an author’s career. She has experience across a wide variety of genres and age categories and particularly loves the early-intervention editorial work that can make a manuscript sparkle.

Sara is a lifelong lover of words (effervescent! ethereal! precarious!) and has a soft spot for absurdist memes. Her laundry list of hobbies includes fiber arts, writing, allergen-friendly baking, and spoiling her army of cats absolutely rotten. She and her college sweetheart currently live—in Bella Swan’s words—“under a near constant cover of clouds and rain” in the Pacific Northwest, with a notable lack of vampires in their general vicinity.