Yfat is a literary agent and co-founder of Foundry Literary & Media in New York City. She began her career as a lawyer before founding SharpMan Media, an award-winning publishing company sold in 2002. Yfat has worked as an author developer and advocate ever since, shepherding books that regularly receive national media exposure and endorsements, sell foreign rights translations all over the world, and are adapted into film and television projects and merchandise lines. She understands what her authors go through, because she is one. Yfat has published seven commercial nonfiction titles with Chronicle Books, Stewart Tabori & Chang and soon an eighth title for Penguin Avery Books. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Brandeis University and a J.D. from U.C.L.A. School of Law.
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