Bio
Kerry-Ann Bentley is a literary agent at The Good Literary Agency, building a list of adult fiction (literary, commercial, upmarket) and narrative non-fiction (memoir, essay collections, social/cultural journalism), and is taking on some YA and select poetry.
Kerry-Ann is Jamaican-born and has lived in the Caribbean, the UK and the US, and is particularly drawn to writers of a similar transatlantic experience.
She started in publishing as an intern for Janklow & Nesbit’s New York office, before joining in 2020 as literary associate to PJ Mark, working closely editorially with him and his list of award-winning writers. Kerry-Ann graduated from the University of Essex with a First-class degree in English & United States Literature and earned her Masters with Distinction in Caribbean Literature & its Diasporas from Goldsmiths, University of London.