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Jenny Stephens

An agent with Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. (see other agents at this agency).

About

Jenny represents award-winning nonfiction in a variety of categories including practical lifestyle and thoughtful how-to projects, particularly in the wellness and mindfulness spaces; cookbooks; and narrative nonfiction about history, cultural criticism, ecology and the natural world, food, and social justice. For both adults and kids, she loves highly designed books that inform and inspire through both text and image. Her clients and their books have been named Kirkus Prize winners, MacArthur fellows, and finalists of the NBCC and YALSA awards. They include Ariel Aberg-Riger, Andrea Bemis, Khiara Bridges, Paco de Leon, Mary L. Gray, Debbie Hines, Ana Inciardi, Alicia Kennedy, Jillian Keenan, Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins, Olivia McGiff and Sammi Katz, Jeffrey Miller, Cecily Parks, Desmond Patton, Nicole Stott, and Wei Tchou. In addition, Jenny represents select literary estates including National Book Award winning author Gloria Naylor and novelist Ken Kesey.

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Country & Year Established

United States
Agent since 2012

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Society/Culture: See guidelines.

Submissions:

Method: Online form.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

Collapse section Nonfiction Open

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
History.
Lifestyle: General, Cooking, Food and Drink.
Memoir.
Nature/Environment: General, Nature.
Society/Culture: See guidelines.
Sports/Recreation.
Travel.

Submissions:

Method: Online form.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Dates

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2026

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