Jenny Stephens

Jenny Stephens

Sterling Lord Literistic
Likely Open
USA
Updated: 9/23/2025
Agent Bio

Jenny represents award-winning nonfiction across practical lifestyle/how-to (wellness, mindfulness), cookbooks, and narrative nonfiction on history, cultural criticism, ecology/nature, food, and social justice.

She favors highly designed text-and-image books for adults and children, and her clients include Kirkus Prize winners, MacArthur fellows, and NBCC and YALSA finalists.

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Clients
  • Ariel Aberg-Riger
  • Andrea Bemis
  • Khiara Bridges
  • Paco de Leon
  • Mary L. Gray
  • Debbie Hines
  • Ana Inciardi
  • Alicia Kennedy
  • Jillian Keenan
  • Chelsey Luger
  • Thosh Collins
  • Olivia McGiff
  • Sammi Katz
  • Jeffrey Miller
  • Cecily Parks
  • Desmond Patton
  • Nicole Stott
  • Wei Tchou
  • Gloria Naylor
  • Ken Kesey
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