Ren Balcombe
Foreign Rights Administrator
Ren worked as a librarian and a bookseller before joining Janklow & Nesbit in 2015, having graduated with a 1st Class BA(Hons) from the University of Chichester in English & Creative Writing. They manage data for the foreign rights team, as well as representing a small list of authors. In 2025, they graduated with a Master of Arts (Distinction) in Children’s Literature from the University of Roehampton.
Ren enjoys reading SFF and YA with diverse casts and fun or unique concepts, as well as hopeful and engaging non-fiction. Favourite authors of the former include Diana Wynne Jones, Rachel Hartman, Kristin Cashore and Terry Pratchett, and the latter include bell hooks, Oliver Burkeman and Rutger Bregman.