Stefanie Lieberman

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Stefanie Lieberman
Role
Senior Counsel
Senior Literary Agent

Stefanie joined JNA as Senior Counsel after practicing law at New York’s Guggenheim Museum and boutique entertainment firm Frankfurt Kurnit. She has degrees from Yale and Northwestern University School of Law.

As an agent, Stefanie focuses primarily on upmarket fiction with commercial appeal. She is looking for love stories, literary thrillers, quick-witted beach and book club reads, and anything plot-driven with a distinctive voice and a smart, high-concept hook. Stefanie also gravitates towards novels with a strong sense of time and place, a unique atmosphere, or gripping, edge-of-the-seat suspense. She loves books with spooky undertones and magical elements, and she’s always on the hunt for writers who make her laugh.

A few books Stefanie wishes she represented: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo; The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower; Possession by A.S. Byatt; Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen; All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby; The Wedding People by Alison Espach; The Correspondent by Virginia Evans; Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus; Writers & Lovers by Lily King; The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon; The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides; Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid; The Guncle by Steven Rowley; The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters; Seven Days in June by Tia Williams; The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.

Selected authors

  • Lauren Smith Brody
  • Kelsey Cox
  • Tiffany Crum
  • Fiona Davis
  • Laura Hankin
  • Adele Myers
  • K.T. Nguyen
  • Sarah Penner
  • Anna Rasche
  • Nina Simon