Alison Lewis is a literary agent with the Frances Goldin Literary Agency. She joined the agency in 2022, following six years at The Zo‘ Pagnamenta Agency. She began her career in editorial at W. W. Norton, and for five years, was editor of the literary magazine American Chordata. She represents a wide range of nonfiction, spanning journalism, cultural criticism, history, science, literary memoir, and essays, as well as select literary fiction. She is particularly drawn to writers with a distinctive voice and perspective, a sense of social or political imagination and responsibility, scholars and researchers who can translate their expertise for a wide readership, and writers pushing the boundaries of form, preconceived ideas, and histories of representation in literature.

Her clients have won numerous honors including PEN Awards, Guggenheim Fellowships, the Windham Campbell Prize, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, the Robert B. Silvers Grant, and long and short-listings for the National Book Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and the Ondaatje Prize. They include Michelle Tea, Emmanuel Iduma, Julia Cooke, Tina Campt, Lisa Duggan, Brandon Shimoda, Ali Araghi, Joshua Clark-Davis, Madison Mainwaring, Erica Peplin, and Craig Seligman. Among the books she sold while at The Zo‘ Pagnamenta Agency are Julia CookeÕs COME FLY THE WORLD (Mariner), Tina CamptÕs A BLACK GAZE (MIT Press), Michelle TeaÕs KNOCKING MYSELF UP (Dey Street), Ali AraghiÕs THE IMMORTALS OF TEHRAN (Melville House), Georgine LawtonÕs RACELESS (HarperPerennial), and Saumya RoyÕs CASTAWAY MOUNTAIN (Astra House).