I've been writing for a good 2 years of my life and I feel like one of my pieces is polished enough for me to publish; it's not finished but I have posted it online and have been getting very good feedback. But it's all a matter of finding the literary agent. Who would, in their right mind, take on a young writer?

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If you are talented, anyone. A good writer represent money for an agent. Submit one of your stories to a contest. Let the world know that you are a good writers and wait and see...

if you are a good enough writer, they wouldn't care how old you are.

If you're good then yes.

I would love it if you sent me the link to your story. I'm 17 and am currently working on comma corrections in my novel. I don't think age should matter. It should be the quality of the work. But if you can, can you send me the link to your story? I would love to help you with it because I am such a nut when it comes to editting and doing positive criticism for a person.

You may well have shot yourself in the foot. Posting a work online at a website open to the public is often considered publication. Agents can't sell something you've already given away. So step one, pull it immediately. Step two, finish it. Polish it, and take your time, until you simply can't make it any better. The feedback you get online is nice when it's approving, but it doesn't necessarily translate to something good enough to sell. Try posting a chapter at a professional-level site for feedback from other writers, many of whom are your competition. This should be password-protected, not open to the public. (Recommended: Absolute Write Water Cooler, the Share Your Work board for your genre.) Make the corrections you feel appropriate after critique--to the whole manuscript. Next you should probably seek a beta reader, someone well-read in the genre of your novel, and be open to hearing everything wrong--and right--about it. One more rewrite, and you may be ready to approach agents. Of course, by then you might be 21, or 36, or 52...

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Maryn Bittner is correct. If you post your work online you make it vulnerable to plagiarism - /even if/ you registered the copyright. Publishers don't want to have to worry about legal problems down the road so they usually pass on work that has been available to the public.