Chris Parris-Lamb is an active literary agent and the Executive Vice President at The Gernert Company.
He is currently open to submissions.
About Chris Parris-Lamb
Chris Parris-Lamb is Executive Vice President and a literary agent at The Gernert Company, which he joined in 2005. Born in Alabama and raised in North Carolina, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar. He began at the agency as an assistant and developed his own list after recognizing the potential of Hillary Jordan’s Mudbound, which became one of his early major successes. He also serves on the board of n+1.
Parris-Lamb represents literary fiction and a broad range of nonfiction. His clients have included Lisa Halliday, Chad Harbach, Hillary Jordan, Garth Risk Hallberg, Hua Hsu, Anna Wiener, David Epstein, Eve Ewing, Andrea Long Chu, Robert Kolker, and others. His list reflects a strong interest in ambitious, voice-driven fiction as well as intellectually engaging nonfiction, journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, sports, science, and contemporary social issues.
Chris Parris-Lamb — Literary Agent
Submitting Your Work to Chris Parris-Lamb
To query him, send your materials to info@thegernertco.com, identify Chris Parris-Lamb in the query, describe the project, include information about yourself, and add a sample chapter or two. Do not email him directly.
The agency responds only when interested, typically within 4–6 weeks, and does not accept submissions containing AI-generated text.
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