Before forming The Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency in 2001, DeChiara was a literary agent with Perkins, Rubie & Associates and The Peter Rubie Literary Agency.  A New York City-based writer, she has worked in the editorial departments of Simon & Schuster and Random House and has been a writing consultant to several major corporations.  Jennifer is a frequent guest at writers conferences, where she lectures on publishing and the art of writing.
			Stephen Fraser joined the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency in January 2005. He worked most recently as Executive Editor at HarperCollins Children's Books, where he edited such creative talents as Mary Engelbreit, Gail Gibbons, Michael Hague, Ann Rinaldi, Kathryn Lasky, Brent Hartinger, Stephen Mitchell, Dan Gutman, and many others. He began his career at Highlights for Children, the famous children's magazine; he then worked at the Weekly Reader Book Club, the Trumpet Book Club, Oxford University Press, and Simon & Schuster. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, he has a Master's degree in Children's Literature from Simmons College in Boston, MA and has written children's book reviews for The Christian Science Monitor, Five Owls, and Publishers Weekly. He represents both children's and adult books in a wide range of genres.