Katherine Fausset is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., which she joined in 2006.

Katherine specializes in both literary and commercial fiction, as well as select non-fiction. Recent books by her clients include Laura van den Berg's The Third Hotel, Benjamin Percy's The Dark Net, Crystal Kim's If You Leave Me, Elise Juska's If We Had Known, Lucia Berlin's Evening in Paradise, Kristyn Kusek Lewis's Half of What You Hear, Cynthia Hand's The Afterlife of Holly Chase and Lisa Brackmann's Black Swan Rising. Forthcoming titles by her clients include Chip Cheek's debut novel Cape May, a new novel by Emily St. John Mandel and Diane Zinna's debut novel The All Night Sun.

Katherine and her family live in New Orleans, Louisiana.