Welcome to Our Team!

Spencerhill is excited to welcome Ciara Smith as the newest member of our agency team. Originally from Illinois, she's called Texas, Scotland and many other locales home while serving in the Navy but now resides in Ohio. Ciara brings her speculative prowess to the agency as a sci-fi, fantasy and horror specialist, though she will also represent romantasy in YA, as well as ancient historical, thrillers and romance. She holds a BA in Creative Writing, hails from a boutique literary agency, and serves as a freelance editor and beta reader. She is disabled, ND, and LGBTQIA+, and strives to bring characters to the page who she never saw in the books she loved growing up. Above all, Ciara is a champion for underrepresented voices, especially neurodivergent and disabled like herself. “I can't wait

to partner with authors across all sorts of genres and bring more diversity to publishing and readers," she said. "My personal mantra is to kick down the gates of publishing for underrepresented authors."