T.K. is seeking representation for their debut crime novel, Charlie Bang.

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Special Agent Charlie Bang has an anger problem. Actually, she’s got a lot of problems, but her temper is the one that got her demoted, so instead of working on the biggest money-laundering case of her career, she’s now stuck in art crimes. On Charlie’s first forgery case, an art historian is murdered. The main suspect is a finance guy who was trying to sell a fake Monet and owes money to a small-time crime family. When the finance guy is found dead, Chicago Homicide calls it a suicide. Charlie suspects a cover-up. The higher-ups threaten to fire her if she doesn’t stop digging, but she’s uncovered an insurance scheme and worries the finance guy’s wife and daughter are in danger. Now Charlie must choose between playing nice to protect her career or following her instincts and pursuing the truth. 

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T.K. holds an MFA from UC Riverside-Palm Desert, a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Chicago, and was a Tin House workshop recipient. They have worked in academics and finance, and their writing has appeared in The Coachella Review, Litbreak Magazine, and The Copperfield Review. Their unpublished novel, Opening the Bodies, was a Launch Pad 2022 Prose Top 50 manuscript, and their novel, Old Bird, won the 2025 Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest for Mystery & Thriller.

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They are also a printmaker and  literacy advocate and live in Portland, OR with their partner and two teenagers. When they aren't writing, they go by J. Schuberth.