Jennifer Joel is an active literary agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), currently accepting submissions. She represents a diverse range of genres, including commercial, historical, and literary fiction, as well as thrillers and suspense.
About Jennifer Joel
Jennifer Joel is a literary agent and Co-Head of the Books Department at Creative Artists Agency in New York. She represents a diverse list of fiction and nonfiction writers, ranging from literary and commercial novelists to historians, journalists, memoirists, business writers, adventurers, entertainers, and authors for young readers. Her clients have appeared on major bestseller lists and received honors including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, National Magazine Awards, and the Carnegie Medal.
Joel graduated from Harvard with a joint concentration in literature and history and began her career as an entertainment and media analyst at Goldman Sachs. She subsequently entered publishing at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates before joining ICM, where she worked with Amanda Urban and was named a partner in 2013. She later became Co-Head of ICM’s publishing department and joined CAA when it acquired ICM Partners in 2022. She now serves as Co-Head of CAA Books.
Her client list reflects the breadth of her interests and has included Bonnie Garmus, Shonda Rhimes, Evan Osnos, A.J. Finn, Stuart Gibbs, Jennifer E. Smith, Graham Moore, Kevin Fedarko, Lisa Taddeo, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jocko Willink, Leif Babin, and others. Joel is currently accepting submissions through CAA.
Jennifer Joel — Literary Agent
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Submission Guidelines for Jennifer Joel / CAA
CAA accepts unsolicited submissions through individual literary agents who are currently open to queries. Writers should review the agency’s U.S. or U.K. literary-agent rosters and choose the agent whose interests best match their project. Agents who are open to submissions provide a submission button or link on their individual profile page.
Writers should generally query only one CAA agent at a time. The agency represents a broad range of work, including commercial and literary fiction, young adult fiction, speculative fiction, memoir, nonfiction, and children’s literature. CAA does not represent screenplays through its literary division.
CAA welcomes submissions from both debut and established authors, including international writers. The agency aims to respond to submissions within approximately six weeks, although response times may vary. CAA does not charge a reading fee.
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