Publishers Weekly is reporting that Stephen Barbara, who joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2006, and was both an agent and the agency’s contracts director, has left for Foundry Literary + Media. At his new agency, Barbara will be a full-time agent.
Clients he’ll be taking with him include Lynne Jonell, Todd Strasser, and Paul G. Tremblay. Barbara was previously at HarperCollins, and at the Fifi Oscard Agency.