Melissa Flashman

About the Agent

A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Melissa Flashman majored in English at Wesleyan University. After stints in the English Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins, commercial and indie radio, the advertising world and something called cool-hunting (it was the late ‘90s), she got her first job in publishing working as an assistant in the literary department of ICM before moving to Trident Media Group where she was a literary agent for over ten years before joining Janklow & Nesbit Associates in 2017. Melissa represents award-winning and best-selling fiction and nonfiction. Melissa’s authors have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critic Circle Award, the Whiting Award, the Rona Jaffe Award, the Hugo Award, n + 1 writer’s fellowship, The Nation’s Ridenhour Prize and the American Book Award among others. A former first serial and magazine agent, she enjoys helping her writers place journalism, essays and fiction in a range of publications including The New Yorker, Harper’s, the New York Times, Vogue, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, n + 1, Tin House, the Baffler and Jacobin.

Represented authors

• Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
• Lily Archer
• KATIE J.M. Baker
• David Batker
• Heather Darcy Bhandari
• Sari Botton
• Taylor Chang-Babaian
• Minhee Cho
• Nicholas Day
• John De Graaf
• Scott De Marchi
• Paula Deboard
• Amy Dezellar
• Kristin Dombek
• Zach Dundas
• Michele Filgate
• Stanley Fish
• Louise Flynn
• Leigh Gallagher
• Emily Gould
• David Graeber
• Jessica Grogan
• Samantha Hahn
• James Hamilton
• Michael Hudson
• Anita Hughes
• Megan Hustad
• Matthew Hutson
• Nathan Jurgensen
• Mastin Kipp
• Matt Kohut
• Chris Lehmann
• Eric Lemay
• Kristin Lemay
• Sarah Leonard
• Danica Lo
• Katherine Losse
• Jessica Loudis
• Adam Lowry
• Denise Lynn
• John Marsh
• Chadwick Matlin
• Rachel Maude
• Jonathan Melber
• Marisa Meltzer
• Walter Benn Michaels
• Alexandra Molotkow
• John Neffinger
• Jens Nordvig
• Daniel Oppenheimer
• Michelle Orange
• Maureen Christian Petrosky
• Julie Phillips
• Rachel Reilich
• Simon Reynolds
• James Rickards
• Tanner Ringerud
• Rose Rock
• Paul Rome
• Eric Ryan
• Pam Satran
• James Scurlock
• Frank Sennett
• Jack Shephard
• Aliza Shevrin
• Yves Smith
• Chelsea Shields Strayer
• Bhaskar Sunkara
• Bill Tancer
• Astra Taylor
• Nick Turse
• Kate Zambreno