Jenny Bent
The Bent Agency
Likely Closed
Updated: 9/24/2025
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Agent Bio
Jenny Bent is President and Literary Agent at the Bent Agency.
In the course of her career, she has represented many award-winning and New York Times-bestselling authors.
She is currently looking for clients she can co-represent with her colleague James Mustelier.
She tends to prefer plot-driven books to character-driven ones and values strong pacing.
She loves novels for adults or young adults that have an element of magic or fantasy or that introduce her to a world that is new to her, whether real or imaginary.
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