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, history of science and medicine, investigative journalism, outward-facing memoir, “big idea” books, sportswriting, expert-driven “stealth help,” narratives from and about the South, and anything in the worlds of art and visual cultural. Her clients have been New York Times bestsellers and Editors' Choice picks; named best books of the year selections from The New Yorker to The Atlantic to NPR; selected as fellows and writers in residence by the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and elsewhere; and have been winners or finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award, the PEN America Literary prizes, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Magazine Award, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and other honors. She also represents select illustrated projects and 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.