Michelle Brower

Michelle Brower is a founding partner and literary agent at Trellis Literary Management, which she co-founded in 2021 after more than fifteen years in publishing. She previously worked at Wendy Sherman Associates and later became a partner at Aevitas Creative Management. Her list spans literary and commercial fiction, and her clients include bestselling and award-winning authors whose books have been selected for major national book clubs and recognized by prominent literary awards.

Brower is particularly interested in book-club fiction, literary fiction, family sagas, story collections, elevated suspense, and high-concept novels that incorporate genre elements while remaining accessible to a broad readership. In nonfiction, she seeks literary narrative work in which a personal story illuminates a larger cultural or social subject. She favors emotionally engaging, story-driven writing over formal experimentation..