Alice Whitwham
Senior Agent

Alice Whitwham grew up in London and studied literature at Cambridge University before moving to the US for a master’s degree in poetry and interpretive theory at the University of Chicago. In graduate school, she interned at The Chicago Review, and after relocating to New York, at The Paris Review. In 2011, she was the buyer at 192 Books and, from 2012 to 2016, the marketing director at McNally Jackson Books, where she programmed readings and festivals for authors and publishers and founded Writers In Public, a not-for-profit organization that brings writers and artists to give workshops at public schools and prisons. She began her agenting career at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency, where she handled UK rights, before she moved to The Cheney Agency to build her own list. She represents a wide range of nonfiction, including voice-driven narrative non-fiction, cultural criticism, reportage, social and cultural history, and memoir; literary fiction; and a select list of poets. Her authors have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, finalists for the National Book Award and PEN/Hemingway awards, and winners of George Polk, Whiting, and Rona Jaffe awards.