Barbara Jones is a longtime editor recently turned literary agent. She works at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, where she represents writers of upmarket fiction and nonfiction, and where her clients include: Mohammed Naseehu Ali, Byllye Avery, Kate Axelrod, Charles Bock, Rafael Frumkin, Maya McHenry, Isaac Oliver, and the Swans of Harlem, among others. Previously, she was an editor for magazines (Harpers Magazine, Vogue) then for book publishing imprints (Hyperion Books, Henry Holt). She edited celebrated novels such as Trust Exercise by Susan Choi, which won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, and Paul Austers Booker-Prize shortlisted novel 4 3 2 1. She also published New York Times nonfiction bestsellers such as Julie Lythcott-Haimss How to Raise an Adult and Luvvie Ajayis Im Judging You and lauded fiction and memoirs, including Arcadia and Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff, Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong, My Life by Coretta Scott King, My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman, and more.