Lauren MacLeod
Lauren E. MacLeod has represented Jodi Meadows, the co-author of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane series, actress and activist Nicole Maines, Chefs Kenny Gilbert, Nelson German, and Rogelio Garcia, Middle East Book Award-winner Aminah Mae Safi, and former Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States, Alora Young.
MacLeod is a former co-vice president of the Association of American Literary Agents, sitting on the board from 2020-2024. She currently serves on the copyright and contracts committees and co-chairs the communications committee. She is also a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier Nashville. Before joining ACM, she was named Vice President of The Strothman Agency. She graduated cum laude from Emerson College, receiving a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing.
Based in Nashville, TN, she concentrates on cookbooks, food writing and history, young-adult and middle-grade fiction, memoir, pop culture, true crime, and narrative nonfiction.
Represents
Walking Gentry Home (Hogarth, 2022)
Not the Girls You’re Looking For (Feiwel & Friends, 2018)
Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & Friends, 2019)
This Is All Your Fault (Feiwel & Friends, 2020)
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix (Feiwel & Friends, 2022)
Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster (Feiwel & Friends, 2022)
Revenge of the Final Girls
The River’s Daughter
Our Perfect Marriage (Quirk, 2016)
Arrested Adolescence: The Secret Life of Nathan Leopold (Rowman & Littlefield,2023)
Food Rebels Why Freedom Requires Rebellion
We Are Lost and Found (Sourcebooks Fire, 2019)
Prelude for Lost Souls (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020)
The Promise of Lost Things (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022)
I Dare You Not to Yawn (Candlewick,2013)
The Real Mermaids Series (Jabberwocky, 2010-2013)
· Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings
· Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath
· Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels
· Real Mermaids Don't Sell Seashells
Dawnbreaker
Bye Forever
When She Reigns
As She Ascends
Before She Ignites
Nightrender
The Black Knife (e-novella)
The Burning Hand (e-novella)
The Glowing Knight (e-novella)
The Hidden Prince (e-novella)
The Mirror King
The Orphan Queen
Phoenix Overture (e-novella)
Infinite
Asunder
Incarnate
My Lady Jane –TV series
My Plain Jane
My Calamity Jane
My Contrary Mary
My Imaginary Mary
My Salty Mary
Leading Lines to Nowhere
Outsider Animals: How the Creatures on the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us
Cherca Cocktails
Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
The Virtues of Vice: How Mischief Made Us Modern
Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
The Other Way Around (Carolrhoda Lab, 2014)
Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature (Carolrhoda Lab, 2016)
Sardines (Quill Tree Books,2022)
The Greatest Common Factor
The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (University of Florida Press, 2021)
New York, NY 10010
