Daily Staff Writer

Literary agent Elyse Cheney will speak today at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Gallery. In her talk, “The Work of a Literary Agent: A Presentation,” Cheney will speak about publishing from an agent’s point of view. She also will talk about how aspiring writers can get their work published.

Nearly all of Cheney’s sales this year were from first-time authors and most were for sizable advances.

She has had 100 percent success publishing new writers.

Cheney represents a variety of authors, including both fiction and nonfiction writers.

She works for New York-based Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, a prestigious publishing firm that has represented the likes of Theodore Drieser, Simone De Beauvoir and Nicholas Sparks.

Cheney’s visit is the third event in the Spring Writer’s Series sponsored by ISU’s creative writing program.

This event is free and open to the public.