Lily McMahon is a literary agent with The Watermark Agency.

She is passionate about nonfiction books that address big-picture questions about morality and wellbeing as well as contemporary social, political and economic issues.

Lily started her career as a Publications Intern at the United Nations before spending several years at Bloomsbury Publishing as an Assistant Editor, where she commissioned new titles for the religious studies list and managed the editorial process from proposal to publication. She has an MSc in Philosophy from the London School of Economics.

After years spent living in New York and London, she is now based in her native San Francisco. In her spare time, she likes to write, do yoga, cook and travel.