Juliet Mushens is an Agent in the UK Literary Division of The Agency Group. Juliet began her publishing career in 2008 at HarperCollins, after reading history at Cambridge, and became an agent in 2011. She joined the Agency Group in 2013 to set up their UK Literary department and represents a bestselling and critically acclaimed list of fiction and non-fiction writers, with a particular passion for genre. She was shortlisted for the Literary Agent of the Year Award at the Bookseller Industry Awards in 2014, was shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize in 2013 and picked as a Bookseller Rising Star in 2012. She supervises Creative Writing dissertations for Kingston University and this year will judge the Bath Novel Award and the Historical Novel Society Novel Award. She is currently working on ‘Get Started in Creative Writing for Young Adults’, a creative writing guide which Hodder will publish in 2015.