Jennifer Lyons was a senior agent within Writers House for seventeen years, where she represented numerous award-winning authors and premier European publishers. The many awards her authors have received include the Nobel Prize, PEN awards, the National Jewish Book Award, the Koret Award, the Lambda, the Pulitzer Prize, and many others. Jennifer is a member of AAR and PEN and a contributing editor to Fiction. She has attended the Frankfurt Book Fair fifteen times and is the daughter of Nick Lyons, the founder of The Lyons Press, and her brother is the publisher of Skyhorse Publishers which is now distributed by Norton.

Jeff Ourvan, an attorney, published author and former editor, is a literary agent with the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency. His interests are varied: he represents non-fiction works, especially memoirs, histories, biographies, international current events and sports. He also represents fiction works, particularly in the young adult, thriller and international fiction categories. Prior to his career as a literary agent, Jeff was a litigator for many years at two large New York-based corporate law firms; a communications consultant working in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo; and an editor of Living Buddhism magazine. One of Jeff’s upcoming works, How To Coach Youth Baseball So Every Kid Wins, will be distributed by Norton in Spring 2012. Jeff is married to the novelist Jessica Jiji.