Jeanne Ryckmans

Jeanne Ryckmans has worked for more than two decades in Australian publishing. The principal of literary agency Key People Literary Management, she is a former senior publisher at Random House, HarperCollins and Black Inc, and Artistic Director of the Canberra Writers’ Festival (2019-2022). Prior to joining the publishing world, she worked for seven years in arts television with France 2 and SBS Television as an on-air presenter and documentary producer and was features editor at ELLE Magazine and books editor for Vogue Australia. She has worked with authors such as Christopher Koch, Bradley Trevor Greive, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Whitlam, and Vicki Laveau-Harvie. Her third book Trust: A Fractured Fable was published in 2023.