Nicole Geiger has worked in just about every capacity in the publishing industry in her thirty-plus years plus career. As VP and Publisher of Ten Speed Press/Tricycle Press then VP and Publisher of Random House/Tricycle Press, Nicole was responsible for up to thirty children’s titles annually. In 2011, she founded Nicole Geiger Publishing, a consultancy for publishers, where she helped launch AMP! Comics for Kids and Beyond Words’ children’s publishing in partnership with Simon & Schuster. She currently manages the publishing program of Yosemite Conservancy, acquiring, producing, and marketing a curated list of both children’s and adult titles.
As a literary agent with Full Circle Literary, Nicole focuses on fiction and nonfiction for board books through middle grade. Curious, commercially minded, and very editorial, Nicole is looking for strong voices that tell stories for all children. Her clients include writers Carmen Bogan, Sara Fajardo, Michael Genhart, Alexandria Giardino, Laurel Goodluck, Eileen Kennedy-Moore, and Charlotte Offsay; graphic novelists Mercedes Acosta and Elijah Forbes; and illustrators Ashleigh Corrin and Bridget George. She is well known for making her clients stretch to create their best work.
The books on her own bedside table are usually middle grade graphic novels and adult nonfiction, especially popular science, though she’ll read about pretty much any topic as long as the writing is amazing.
