The Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency, LLC is managed by Jennifer Lyons who has nearly twenty years of domestic and international experience as a literary agent. The focus of the agency is on providing personalized attention to each of our clients from conception, to publication and beyond, in order to maximize the potential of every project we represent.

Jennifer Lyons was a senior agent for seventeen years before she decided to open up her own literary agency. She represents numerous award-winning authors and premier European publishers. The many awards her clients have received include the Nobel Prize, The Pulitzer PEN awards, the National Jewish Book Award, The Koret Award, The Lambda, and many others. Jennifer is a contributing editor to Fiction and The Reading Room. She has attended the Frankfurt Book Fair fifteen times and is the daughter of Nick Lyons, the founder of the Lyons Press and long-time Crown editor and also the sister of Tony Lyons who is the publisher of Skyhorse Publishing. She regularly teaches the business of writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Her long-standing film partner in Hollywood is The Lynn Pleshette Agency and she works with fifteen partners around the world, including The Paul Marsh Agency in the UK.

Ruth Mirsky is a recent graduate of Harvard University and the daughter of the head of the City College English Department. She currently represents a select group of debut authors with whom she is also working editorially.