Grace Johnson
Agency Associate and Foreign Rights Associate

Grace Johnson grew up in the north woods of Washington and Minnesota, and she studied English and Music History, Theory, and Composition at Brown University. For several years, she read for Coffee House Press, and in 2021, she read for the Ballard Spahr Prize in Poetry. She has held internships at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, independent publisher Milkweed Editions, and Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agency. Before joining The Cheney Agency in 2022 and the agency’s foreign rights department in 2023, Grace worked as a fiction and nonfiction literary assistant at Trident Media Group, and served as fiction editor of VIDA Review. Grace gravitates toward voice-driven literary fiction with an edge, genre fiction that expands its categorical boundary, and books with a strong sense of place or subculture. In nonfiction, Grace is especially drawn to personal narrative and memoir, and cultural history and criticism that undoes convention.