{"id":936829,"date":"2026-04-21T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/our-services\/agentmatch\/literary-agent\/matt-mcgowan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:59:42","slug":"matt-mcgowan","status":"publish","type":"agent","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/our-services\/agentmatch\/literary-agent\/matt-mcgowan\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt  McGowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\" style=\"background: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Matt was featured in <\/span><i>Poets &#038; Writers<\/i><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\" style=\"background: transparent; color: rgb(14, 16, 26); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">&#8216; &#8220;Twenty-One Agents You Should Know&#8221; and his clients have won or been shortlisted for the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award, Pen\/Revson Award, PEN USA Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O. 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