Ryan Fischer-Harbage was an editor for nearly a decade before becoming an agent. As an agent, he has represented a diverse range of clients, from first-time writers to #1 New York Times bestselling authors. He has worked on behalf of Trace Adkins, Karen Dawn, Jonathan Fast, Bob Greene, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Dr. Nicholas Perricone, Louise Sloan, David Vinjamuri, Robert James Waller, Pete Wentz, Tricia Yearwood, Gary Zukav, and many others. He has recently sold books in the U.S. and the U.K. to publishers including The Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck Publishers, The Penguin Group, Random House, Rodale, Simon & Schuster, and John Wiley & Sons, among others

As an editor, Ryan worked at Simon & Schuster, where he helped create and launch a new imprint, Simon Spotlight Entertainment. He also worked as an editor Little, Brown & Company as well as The Penguin Group (USA) where he edited books for Plume, Dutton, and Viking. He acquired and edited Farah Ahmedi and Tamin Ansary's New York Times bestseller, The Other Side of the Sky; the Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe Spotlight Team's Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church; E: The Environmental Magazine's Green Living; as well as Peter Singer's New York Times bestseller The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush. He has also worked with numerous other bestselling authors, including Michael Connelly, Matthew Diffee, John Feinstein, Malcolm Gladwell, David Kuo, Brad Listi, Alice Sebold, and Danny Wallace.

Ryan teaches seminars and an eight-week course on writing book proposals at mediabistro in SoHo. He has lectured to students and writers at institutions such as New York University, The New School University, The Colgate University Writers' Conference, The New Orleans Writers Conference, The San Diego State Writers Conference, and The New York LifeLab.

His opinions on writing and publishing have appeared in many publications including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Poets & Writers, and Publishers Weekly. Ryan is a graduate of Kalamazoo College, the Radcliffe Publishing Course, and the Master of Fine Arts program in writing and literature at Bennington College. He lives with his family in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley.