2025 Guest Literary Agent, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates

Iwalani Kim is an associate literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. She represents character-driven upmarket and literary fiction, particularly stories with a strong sense of place or voice, as well as narrative nonfiction, including memoir, cultural histories, and cultural criticism. Her clients include Naomi Xu Elegant, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Reena Shah, Alice Evelyn Yang, and others. Iwalani grew up in Honolulu, Hawai’i, studied Political Science and German Studies at Vassar College, and now lives in Queens, New York.