Janet Silver

Janet Silver

Aevitas Creative Management
Likely Closed
USA
Updated: 8/29/2025
Agent Bio

Janet Silver represents bestselling and award‑winning authors in literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, bringing extensive editorial and publishing experience including a prior role as Publisher at the former Houghton Mifflin Company.

She has served as a trustee of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and sits on the advisory board of Ploughshares magazine.

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Clients
  • Cheryl Strayed
  • Anthony Marra
  • Monique Truong
  • Omer Friedlander
  • Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Book Sales
  • Wild
  • Tiny Beautiful Things
  • A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena
  • Mercury Pictures Presents
  • The Book Of Salt
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