LUCY CLELAND

Lucy Cleland is a literary agent at Kneerim & Williams, representing idea-driven and narrative nonfiction of all stripes as well as upmarket fiction. A southern transplant to Boston from Atlanta, Lucy joined Kneerim & Williams in 2013 after graduating magna cum laude from Wellesley College. She works with a range of writers, from scholars to debut novelists, and she has sold books to publishing houses including Farrar, Straus & Giroux, W.W. Norton, Random House, Berkley, Chronicle, Grand Central Publishing, HarperCollins, and Sourcebooks. Her author's books have been NBCC Award Winners, PEN Awards winners, NPR Best Books of the Year, Book of the Month Club picks, and Pulitzer Prize finalists. Lucy's taste is eclectic -- but across genres she is drawn to the lives of creatives and rebels, perspectives that challenge us to see the world differently, and questions about identity and inheritance. She lives in JP with her wife and small reddish dog, and her current cultural obsessions are playing the NYT Spelling Bee and watching K-dramas.