Elizabeth Wales Literary Agency, INC. established in 1990 and described as a “…discerning Seattle outfit in search of literary nonfiction and fiction from the Pacific Rim and beyond,” represents approximately 50 clients. Subjects of interest for the agency are narrative-driven nonfiction and memoirs—with particular emphasis on science, nature, social justice, politics, health, food writing, and culture—and literary fiction and graphic novels.

Recently published and forthcoming titles represented by the Agency include: Victory Parade by Leela Corman (Pantheon, 2024); Trigger Warning by Jacinda Townsend (Graywolf, forthcoming in September 2025); Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Nature and Spirit, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt (Little, Brown Spark, 2020 and paperback edition Spring 2023); We Are Not Strangers, by Josh Tuininga (AbramsComicsArts, 2023); What Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé (W.W. Norton, 2022 and paperback, Spring 2023); The ABCs of Savage Love, by Dan Savage with illustrations by Joe Newton (Sasquatch Books, 2021); Half Broke, by Ginger Gaffney (W.W. Norton, 2020); Of Bears and Ballots, by Heather Lende (Algonquin, 2020), author of New York Times bestseller, If You Lived Here, You’d Know My Name and Find the Good (Algonquin); Witness Tree, by Lynda Mapes (Bloomsbury, 2017; University of Washington Press, 2020); Our Native Bees by Paige Embry (Timber/Workman, 2018). Also among our agency clients are: Leela Corman, Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt, Heather Lende, Edgar Martinez and Larry Stone, David Montgomery, Jacinda Townsend, Amaroq Weiss. Agency titles have appeared on the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and other national bestseller lists and earned strong reviews.