Nancy Yost
Nancy Yost Literary Agency
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Updated: 11/9/2025
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Nancy Yost, a Las Vegas export, started her literary career in the contracts department at Random House, then joined Avon Books as an editor, and worked 15+ years as an agent before starting NYLA in 2009.
Nancy's primary focus is commercial fiction.
She looks for complex, engrossing character- and voice-driven reads, great world-building, atmosphere, intelligence, humor, and adorable (or not-so-adorable) animals.
She loves learning painlessly, be it history, science, or the arts, and has a special fondness for good gothics and ghost stories.
Her nonfiction tastes lean in the same direction.
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