We believe words change the world.

The Tuesday Agency is a full-service lecture agency exclusively representing a premier group of professional speakers including; authors, journalists, historians, artists and scholars of the highest regard.

We are an agency with a literary heart dedicated to thoughtful dialogue and based in Iowa City, Iowa, home of the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the first city in North America designated by the United Nations as a “City of Literature.” We also have an office in Brooklyn, New York at the cultural and commercial crossroads of New York City’s rich literary community.

The speakers you see here on this website are all represented exclusively by our agency and can’t be found anywhere else. Though because of our experience and relationships we are able and happy to assist you in securing any speaker on any subject that is of interest to you.

Trinity won first place in a yodeling contest.

Trinity Ray is a father, husband, brother, son, avid reader and President of The Tuesday Agency (not necessarily in that order).

He’s spent twenty-five years in the lecture industry, as an event coordinator, agent and as a program director. For ten years he was Vice President at a large lecture bureau in Boston. Trinity served in the United States Army Reserve and received his BA in Political Science from the University of Iowa.

Among other things, he has run the Boston Marathon, rode cross-country in a semi-truck, won second place in a chili cook-off and first place in a yodeling contest.

Kevin grew up on the prairies of Nebraska surrounded by wild mustangs.

Kevin Mills prefers to spend his free time in dusty old bookstores and thundering old concert halls. He is Vice President of The Tuesday Agency.

Before joining the agency, Kevin taught and shared his love of literature and language arts to students in the Las Vegas public school system. Having grown up in rural Nebraska, Kevin has traveled many roads, living at times in Nashville, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He has wrangled horses with real cowboys, sold books, made many lattes, and played thousands of guitar riffs. He’s pretty sure Creedence Clearwater Revival is the greatest American rock band…or is it Wilco? He’s always up for that debate.

He is a graduate of The University of Iowa, Illinois State University, and the Guitar Institute of Technology.

Ariel will get into a conversation with absolutely anyone.

Ariel Lewiton has been a waitress on a dinner cruise ship in Chicago and a love advice columnist for a weekly newspaper in Beijing. After 19 moves in 18 years, she’s landed in Brooklyn, where she runs Tuesday’s New York office as a Senior Agent.

Ariel began her career in educational publishing, editing high school literature textbooks and writing essays for the Reading Comprehension section of the SAT. (Sorry, teens.) After a yearlong stint as a journalist and editor at China Daily in Beijing, she earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa, where she ran two community reading series. From there, she became Director of Marketing and Publicity for the independent literary publisher Sarabande Books, where she also acquired and edited fiction and nonfiction.

Since 2017, she has worked as a freelance book editor, writer, and creative writing teacher. Among other projects, she’s been a contributing writer for Amtrak’s onboard magazine The National, ghostwritten a self-help book for a CEO, and knit several giant blankets during the pandemic. Like a true East Coast cliché, she loves books, public radio, and seltzer.

Alexa’s homemade black raspberry pie won a blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair.

Alexa Starry has swam with elephants in a Thai river, hiked Mount Timpanogos, and she once spent a weekend meditating with Buddhist monks. She began her career at The Tuesday Agency in 2016 and currently holds the role of Senior Agent.

Alexa earned an MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa, as well as a BA in English and Publishing. During undergrad, she was a contributor for Fools Magazine, an Iowa City-based literary, arts, and culture publication, and was also involved in editing and designing chapbooks for the inaugural Iowa Chapbook Prize series. In grad school, she helped the Marion Public Library develop a technology guide for their Derecho Oral History Project.

A true former English major, Alexa holds a deep fascination for medieval literature and art and will talk your ear off about the Unicorn Tapestries (which are currently hanging within The Met Cloisters in Manhattan).

Jacqueline starts her mornings rowing on the Iowa River.

Jacqueline Wahl has steered a blimp, toured Europe playing the oboe, and once folded 1,000 paper cranes for a college seminar project.

Jacqueline is currently a student at the University of Iowa pursuing a degree in English with minors in Philosophy, Cinema, and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. She’s also a nonfiction editor for Earthwords, the University of Iowa’s oldest undergraduate literary magazine, a French translator for the Translate Iowa Project, treasurer of the University of Iowa’s English Society, and a member of the Honors Undergraduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council.

When she’s not picking up a shift as a student docent at the Pentacrest Museums, you can find her at Iowa City’s local independent theater or reading with a cup of tea nearby.