Formerly SVP & Publisher of William Morrow, Lisa Gallagher is known throughout the publishing industry as an indefatigable author advocate who has helped nurture the careers of countless writers. At William Morrow, she worked with numerous New York Times best selling authors, including novelists Brunonia Barry, Marisa de los Santos, Neil Gaiman, Andrew Gross, Kim Harrison, Joe Hill, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Laura Lippman, Gregory Maguire, Christopher Moore, Sena Jeter Naslund, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kimberla Lawson Roby, James Rollins, and Neal Stephenson; and nonfiction writers T. J. English (Havana Nocturne), Bruce Feiler (Where God Was Born), Guy Fieri (Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives), John Grogan (Marley & Me, The Longest Trip Home), Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics), Slash (Slash), James Swanson (Manhunt), U2 (U2 by U2), Robert Wagner (Pieces of My Heart), and Frank Warren (Lifetime of Secrets: A Postsecret Book), among others.

Prior to joining William Morrow in 2000, Gallagher moved to New York in 1998 to open the U.S. office of Bloomsbury Publishing, having worked in their London office for several years before that. Born and raised in England, she was educated at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK.

As an agent, Gallagher is looking to represent both fiction and non-fiction authors, and whilst she inevitably will be attracted to the same kinds of books she was passionate about as a publisher - accessible literary fiction, quality commercial women's fiction, suspense/thrillers, lively narrative non-fiction - she knows that sometimes it is a book that you don't know that you are looking for that becomes the one you can't put down.