About
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.
Featured Work
My Lady Jane by Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand, and Brodi Ashton
Now a streaming series on Prime Video! New York Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of the Year * Bustle Best Young Adult Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults. This comical, fantastical, romantical, New York Times bestselling, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey is “an uproarious historical fantasy that’s not to be missed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Other Works
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It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me by Nicole Maines
2024
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Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California's Wine Country by Rogelio Garcia
2024
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Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber by Steven Hale
2024
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Southern Cooking, Global Flavors by Kenny Gilbert
2023
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Walking Gentry Home by Alora Young
2022
