Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair is Publisher of McClelland & Stewart. She is a Cree, Ojibwe, and German/Jewish settler. She has worked for more than twenty years in the performing and creative arts, and from 2012-2022 in literary management. She began that work at Transatlantic Agency in 2012, where she rose through the ranks to senior agent, representing literary fiction and non-fiction with a focus on Indigenous creators and political engagement, and additionally helped manage translation rights programs for Page Two Books and Drawn & Quarterly. Her authors were acknowledged by virtually every awards jury in the country, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Award, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the LAMBDA Awards, the Toronto Book Award, and many others.  

In 2020, Stephanie joined CookeMcDermid Literary Management, and found even more success—becoming the #1 ranked agent in the country in both fiction and non-fiction, according to Publisher’s Marketplace. Through it all, she has been a fierce advocate and activist, serving as a mentor and curator, and organizing publishing events to challenge colonial practices in publishing and to advance the work of reconciliation.