Jesseca Salky

About the Agent

Jesseca Salky (she/hers) is an agent, founder, and attorney, with almost two decades of experience in the book publishing and adjacent industries. She represents a curated list of distinguished novelists, including Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling novelist Anne Tyler, and works with some of the leading literary agencies and agents in New York as contracts counsel and general business adviser. She has a 360-degree view of the industry as agent and attorney and is on the cutting edge of developments in formats and mediums, often formulating new standards on behalf of writers and agents in the industry. Jesseca keeps a curated client list of authors, thinkers, and industry disruptors.

Represented authors

• Julie Balint
• Andrew Bridge
• Michael Byers
• Emma Chastain
• Annie Dillard
• Sean Gandert
• Peter Geye
• Nadine Gordimer
• Andrew Halloran
• Sue Kaufman
• Jim Lehrer
• A.J. Liebling
• William Loizeaux
• Bernard Malamud
• Katie McCabe
• Carley Moore
• Charlie Morris
• Alexander Neubauer
• Matthew Norman
• Ann Petry
• George Plimpton
• Suraya Sadeed
• Ben Schwartz
• Barbara Tuchman
• Anne Tyler
• Ken Wells
• Eudora Welty