Jessica Berg:
Writes Stories, Finds Stories

Jessica Berg has spent her life chasing stories … the ones she writes, the ones she represents, and the ones she can’t stop talking about. As a literary agent and author, she’s constantly thinking about how stories shape us, shift us, and make the world a little bigger.

As a writer, she’s drawn to the edges—the messy in-betweens of identity, resilience, and transformation. She writes about people figuring themselves out, sometimes in atmospheric settings that feel like characters in their own right. You can find her work in Writer’s Digest, The Louisville Review, Louisiana Literature, and other places where people get emotionally wrecked by good sentences.

At Rosecliff Literary, she champions books that don’t just find an audience, they haunt them. She loves distinct voices, layered narratives, and high-stakes storytelling, and she helps writers navigate publishing with the clarity of someone who’s been in the trenches herself. She has an MFA from Spalding University, a strong opinion on the best museum gift shops, and a never-ending list of books she needs to talk about immediately.

When she’s not deep in a manuscript, she’s probably getting lost in a museum, watching a niche documentary, or spiraling over an unsolved mystery from 1932. Hang out with her here or here.