Welcome to Trellis.

We are a full-service literary agency formed in the fall of 2021 by agents Michelle Brower, Stephanie Delman, and Allison Hunter. 

A trellis is an interwoven structure that supports new growth, allowing it to bloom. After more than a decade enjoying each other’s camaraderie in the publishing industry, we’ve joined forces to create a company with that ethos: an agency that enables and nourishes the growth of both our authors and our colleagues. We’re inherently collaborative, community-minded, and united in our ideas about client care and the future of publishing. 

In addition to the three founding partners, our team includes foreign rights director Allison Malecha, agents Mariah Stovall, Danya Kukafka, Amy Bishop-Wycisk, Dana Murphy, Allison Devereux, and Natalie Edwards, and associates Elizabeth Pratt and Tori Clayton. We work with exemplary co-agents in the foreign, film, and television spaces, ensuring that our clients’ work reaches the widest possible audience. 

Our clients include New York Times and international bestsellers; winners of the National Book Award, the Whiting Award, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award; finalists for the National Book Critics Circle, PEN Award, National Magazine Award, and more. Trellis clients have been selected as fellows and scholars by MacDowell, Tin House, the National Endowment for the Arts, Steinbeck, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Kundiman, among other lauded institutions. Our clients’ books have been chosen for national book clubs including the Good Morning America Book Club, Reese’s Book Club, Read With Jenna, Belletrist, and more; and have been adapted for film and television, including Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering (now a series on Hulu) and The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris (now a series on Hulu), with many others in development.

Our interests range from literary to commercial to genre-bending fiction, from narrative to memoir to pop culture nonfiction and everything in between. Please read our bios and our submissions policies before you send us your work. We hope you’ll also peruse our bookshelves. We’re so glad you’re here, and we look forward to hearing from you.