Charlotte Sununu joined Dystel, Goderich & Bourret in 2025 as Jane Dystel’s assistant after completing the Columbia Publishing Course. She also works with the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature and the Arts, facilitating a biannual creative residency in Sezze, Italy.  Charlotte received a bachelor’s degree in 2021 from Duke University in English Literature with high distinction in creative composition. Before settling in Brooklyn, Charlotte spent time working in New York City hospitals, wrangling horses in Montana, ski instructing in Oregon, and writing in Italy.

Charlotte is not open to queries, but can often be found reading contemporary literary fiction, the American greats, and Italian poets in translation.

Charlotte says... 

I have been surrounded my whole life by books and records, and by the earnest fealty my parents had sworn to both.

My mother was raised in Charleston, West Virginia with Giancarlo DiTrapano, the late great publisher of The New York Tyrant magazine and Tyrant Books. Gian became my first and most holy role model in the world of publishing. He championed progressive literature and took chances on writers without mainstream appeal. Gian, more than anyone else, showed me from a very young age what it meant to nurture creative thought, and how the pursuit of literature is intrinsically linked to the pursuit of self.

I’ve had many mentors and peers who, like Gian, have helped shape my now eclectic literary taste. From Paradise Lost to Paradise Logic, some of my favorite writers include John Milton, Cesare Pavese, Osamu Dazai, Mary Shelley, Denis Johnson, Thomas Pynchon, Edmund White, Michael Bible, Chelsey Minnis, and Scott McClanahan.