Joy Tutela represents various genres of books, including projects in the following categories: narrative nonfiction, science, health, memoir, history, politics, self-help, investment, business, women’s and LGBTQ+ issues, parenting, humor, craft, cooking, lifestyle and entertainment, commercial and literary fiction, and middle grade and young adult.
Some of the authors she represents include Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, Dr. Drew Ramsey, Dr. Gregory Scott Brown, Dr. Tommy Wood, Nicole Sachs, poet Maggie Smith, Kelly Sundberg, Danny Seo, Bob Eckstein, Nisha Sharma, Lev AC Rosen, Ellis Rosen, Eli Burnstein, Ed Slott, Kate McDermott, Kim Sunée, Stephen Puleo, and Jackson Galaxy. She also represents the New York Times bestselling Atkins series and Intellectual Devotional series by Noah Oppenheim and David Kidder.
Originally from and based in Red Sox Nation, Joy is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Radcliffe Publishing Course. She has been a writing instructor at Goucher’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction program. She previously worked for Harvard Business School Press and taught at an elementary school in Italy.
A member of AAR, Joy has been with the David Black Literary Agency since 1998.