Lauren MacLeod is a Nashville-based senior literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management

Lauren’s primary interests are cookbooks, food writing, narrative nonfiction, pop-culture, true crime, memoir, young adult fiction and nonfiction, and middle-grade novels.

She is a member of Les Dames d’Escoffier Nashville and a former board member and co-vice president of the Association of American Literary Agents, where she currently serves as co-chair of the communications committee, and sits on the contracts committee and the copyright committee. In 2024 she was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree.

Before joining ACM, she was named Vice President of The Strothman Agency. She graduated cum laude from Emerson College, receiving a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing.