Leslie Meredith is a literary agent with Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, LLC. She joined DG&B in 2021, after working at a boutique literary agency for several years. Before becoming an agent, Leslie was an editor, working at imprints of Simon & Schuster for over 15 years, after holding positions at Ballantine, Harmony/Crown, Bantam, and McGraw-Hill. Her passion as an editor for books on science and psychology, Western and holistic medicine, animals and nature, spiritual inquiry and practice, and food and cooking has carried into her work as an agent. She represents scientists and psychologists; physicians and therapists; journalists, memoirists, and authors of narrative nonfiction; and experts who through clear and incisive storytelling advocate for reform in medicine, health, business, law, and public policy.

Leslie grew up in the Pittsburgh suburbs and after high school briefly attended a conservatory of music before transferring to Swarthmore. Her first publishing job was at Vanguard Press, a small, distinguished literary publisher; subsequently she worked at imprints of the Big Five. She lives in Connecticut with her partner, a former publishing sales executive who now works in hospitality, and their corgis, where she enjoys gardening (planting for birds and butterflies), cooking and baking, and training and competing with the corgis in agility.

Leslie is looking for well-written nonfiction in a broad range of topics: memoirs with a distinctive point of view; great and small awakenings; animal stories and insights into animal behavior and our common bonds; psychological, spiritual, and therapeutic perspectives that change peopleÕs lives; popular science that excites and informs; therapies and spiritual practices that inspire and heal; narrative non-fiction on subcultures or passions or events whose stories have not been told before Ð or are told in a fresh way; nature and natural science Ð animal, vegetable, and mineral.