Jennifer Herrera joined the David Black Agency in 2015 after working at Fletcher & Company and Europa Editions, where she was an early advocate of Elena Ferrante. She went to college in Ohio, where she studied Philosophy, French, and Russian, and has master’s degrees in Philosophy and Social Sciences.

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Her authors have been awarded the Harriet Tubman Prize, nominated for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, and been New York Times bestsellers. She loves reading nonfiction books about big ideas and is particularly drawn to smart, issue-driven books, especially those from journalists as well as writers with professional expertise, including science, psychology, philosophy, economics, prescriptive, lifestyle, history, and the stories of underrepresented groups. In terms of fiction, she loves character-driven thrillers, upmarket book club fiction, and imaginative fantasy.  

 

Books she wishes she would have represented include: Fair Play by Eve Rodsky, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Get Good with Money by Tiffany Aliche, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis, Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, and Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.

 

Jennifer is open to both fiction and nonfiction queries.