Allison Devereux

Literary Agent

Allison Devereux joined Trellis Literary Management in 2023 and is focused on expanding the agency’s nonfiction program. Before Trellis, she was an agent at The Cheney Agency.  

Allison’s interests in nonfiction are wide ranging, but she is particularly interested in cultural and social history, popular science, philosophy, deeply reported narrative, outward-facing memoir, investigative journalism, “big idea” books, essays and criticism, and select illustrated projects. Her clients have been New York Times bestsellers and Editors' Choice picks; best books of the year selections from The New Yorker to The Atlantic to Amazon; and winners or finalists for the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN America Literary Award, the National Magazine Award, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and other prizes. She also represents select literary fiction on a referral basis, with a penchant for surreal, psychologically complex narratives. 

A native of Texas, Allison graduated from The University of Texas at Austin's Plan II Honors Program, with a focus in art history. After stints at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and The Institute of Classical Archaeology in Austin, she got her first job in trade publishing at Macmillan in 2011, before moving into agenting at Wolf Literary Services and then The Cheney Agency.  

Allison’s favorite books include Furious Hours by Casey Cep, How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman, Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, The Lonely City by Olivia Laing, Remainder by Tom McCarthy, When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, and Motherhood by Sheila Heti.