Allison Devereux

Allison Devereux joined Trellis Literary Management in 2023 to lead the agency’s nonfiction program.  

Allison’s interests in nonfiction are wide ranging, but she’s particularly interested in cultural and social history, popular science, philosophy, deeply reported narrative, outward-facing memoir, investigative journalism, “big idea” books, essays and criticism, and select illustrated projects. Her clients have been New York Times bestsellers and Editors' Choice picks; best books of the year selections from The New Yorker to The Atlantic to NPR; and winners or finalists for the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN America Literary Award, the National Magazine Award, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and other honors. She also represents select literary fiction on a referral basis. 

A Texas native, Allison graduated from The University of Texas at Austin's Plan II Honors Program. After working at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and The Institute of Classical Archaeology in Austin, she got her first job in trade publishing at Macmillan in 2011, before moving into agenting at Wolf Literary Services and then The Cheney Agency.  

Allison’s favorite books include Furious Hours by Casey Cep, How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr, The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman, Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen, Remainder by Tom McCarthy, When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, and Motherhood by Sheila Heti.