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Lucy Cleland joined Frances Goldin in 2025 as a VP & Senior Agent with over a decade of experience representing prize-winning authors of fiction and nonfiction. Her taste is bold and eclectic; she loves working with writers who, to steal from a line Dickinson, “tell all the truth but tell it slant.” Her clients have been National Book Award and Pulitzer finalists, winners of the NBCC Award and PEN America Awards, recipients of MacArthur “Genius” grants, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; their books have been featured in the New Yorker Briefly Noted, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a variety of best books of the year lists, as well as ranked as USA Today Bestsellers and selected for the Book of the Month Club.
A southern transplant originally from Atlanta, Lucy lives with her wife and two dogs in Boston.
Lucy is looking for:
In nonfiction, Lucy is seeking stylish writers who have their hands on a curiosity-inducing subject, books that add depth and context to conversations in the zeitgeist, and experts that offer readers powerful and urgent clarity about their lives and the world around them.
In fiction, Lucy is drawn to novels with sticky or unusual concepts. She loves authors that explore how social issues and human hearts get painfully and gloriously tangled up together. She also likes genre-bending contemporary work, and stories that trace the downstream effects of a single “twist” on our world.
Lucy is not looking for:
“Stories that feel familiar. Give me something new.”
Lucy Cleland joined Frances Goldin in 2025 as a VP & Senior Agent with over a decade of experience representing prize-winning authors of fiction and nonfiction. Her taste is bold and eclectic; she loves working with writers who, to steal from a line Dickinson, “tell all the truth but tell it slant.” Her clients have been National Book Award and Pulitzer finalists, winners of the NBCC Award and PEN America Awards, recipients of MacArthur “Genius” grants, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; their books have been featured in the New Yorker Briefly Noted, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a variety of best books of the year lists, as well as ranked as USA Today Bestsellers and selected for the Book of the Month Club.
A southern transplant originally from Atlanta, Lucy lives with her wife and two dogs in Boston.
Lucy is looking for:
In nonfiction, Lucy is seeking stylish writers who have their hands on a curiosity-inducing subject, books that add depth and context to conversations in the zeitgeist, and experts that offer readers powerful and urgent clarity about their lives and the world around them.
In fiction, Lucy is drawn to novels with sticky or unusual concepts. She loves authors that explore how social issues and human hearts get painfully and gloriously tangled up together. She also likes genre-bending contemporary work, and stories that trace the downstream effects of a single “twist” on our world.
Lucy is not looking for:
“Stories that feel familiar. Give me something new.”