Our Team

The Marsal Lyon Literary Agency is dedicated to helping authors successfully place their work. Our members have many years of experience in the publishing industry and possess a diverse and unique skill set. We have worked with many bestselling and award-winning authors, as well as first-time authors, and look forward to continuing to bring exceptional projects to the market.

Kevan Lyon

Kevan Lyon is a founding partner of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. With over 25 years in the publishing business, including over 15 years as a literary agent and many years on the wholesale, retail and distribution side of the business, Kevan brings an informed and unique perspective to her work with clients. Her background on the buying and retail side of publishing affords her helpful insight into what types of books will sell and how to market them. Kevan holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Jill Marsal

Jill Marsal is a founding partner of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. She represents many NYT, WSJ, USA Today bestselling and award-winning authors. She also has a strong legal background and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is looking for a broad range of fiction: mystery, suspense, women’s fiction, contemporary, and historical. On the non-fiction side, she is interested in: business, current events, health/wellness, self-help, nature/science, advice/relationships, psychology, parenting, narrative, and history.

Shannon Hassan

Shannon Hassan has been an agent at Marsal Lyon for over a decade. She represents upmarket adult fiction, middle grade fiction, and young adult fiction and has New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors on her list. She looks for contemporary and historical stories with a fresh voice and a big hook, and is especially interested in underrepresented voices. She received her JD from Harvard and her BA from George Washington University. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, and served on the board of The Dairy Arts Center.

Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong

Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong is a life-long lover of books and enjoys vivid memories of the exact day she unlocked the secret code behind letters that, when combined, form words. Since then, it’s the rare occasion when you’ll find her without a book in her hand, a Kindle in her purse, or a pair of Airpods in her ears while she devours the works of whatever author she’s selected as her new favorite of the month.

Lexie Krauss

Lexie Krauss joined MLLA in 2022 after interning at Laura Dail Literary Agency. She was born and raised in the wilds of Northern California and graduated from Mills College with a degree in English/Creative Writing. When she isn’t reading manuscripts, she’s keeping her finger on the pulse of the market as a bookseller.

Ann Rose

Ann Rose began her career in publishing as a literary agency intern in 2014 and started representing her own clients in 2018. She represents MG and YA of all genres as well as adult romance, rom-com, women’s fiction, suspense, thriller, mystery, light fantasy & sci-fi, speculative, historical, horror, upmarket, and commercial fiction all usually with a feminist bend. Ann also represents selective non-fiction dealing with women’s issues. She likes to say, she supports women’s rights and she also supports women’s wrongs. She loves anything with a strong voice, compelling plot, and a hopeful ending. When not agenting you’ll find her on her elliptical, sleeping, or writing her own novels that are guaranteed to make you LOL. (Well, she thinks she’s funny.)