Presented By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program
Presentation and Q&A
Agent Anjali Singh, Ayesha Pande Literary
This event is open to MFA students and Zell Fellows only.
Currently an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary, Anjali Singh started her career in publishing in 1996 as a literary scout. Over the course of her publishing career, she has been Editorial Director at Other Press and held Senior Editor positions at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is best known for having championed Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis after stumbling across it on a visit to Paris. She has always been drawn to the thrill of discovering new writers and among the literary novelists whose careers she helped launch are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Samantha Hunt, Preeta Samarasan, Brigid Pasulka (Winner of a PEN-Hemingway Award), Zoe Ferraris (Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best First Novel), and Saleem Haddad.
As an agent, she is very proud to represent Bridgett Davis, author of the acclaimed memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers; Susan Abulhawa, bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin and winner of the 2020 Palestine Book Award for Against the Loveless World; Arif Anwar, author of The Storm; and Michigan MFA and Hopwood Award-winner Nawaaz Ahmed whose brilliant debut novel Radiant Fugitives is coming from Counterpoint in August 2021. Other forthcoming literary works from clients include The Other Mother by Rachel Harper (Counterpoint, 2022); How to Be A Revolutionary by South African novelist C.A. Davis (Verso Fiction); Strange Birds by Kuwaiti writer Mai al-Nakib (HarperCollins/Custom House) and Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez’s graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts (Simon & Schuster). She grew up between New Delhi and Alexandria, VA, graduated from Brown University with a degree in English and American literature and holds a diploma in French language and literature from the Sorbonne. These days, she has been dividing her time between New York City and Rhode Island.
Currently an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary, Anjali Singh started her career in publishing in 1996 as a literary scout. Over the course of her publishing career, she has been Editorial Director at Other Press and held Senior Editor positions at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She is best known for having championed Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis after stumbling across it on a visit to Paris. She has always been drawn to the thrill of discovering new writers and among the literary novelists whose careers she helped launch are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Samantha Hunt, Preeta Samarasan, Brigid Pasulka (Winner of a PEN-Hemingway Award), Zoe Ferraris (Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best First Novel), and Saleem Haddad.
As an agent, she is very proud to represent Bridgett Davis, author of the acclaimed memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers; Susan Abulhawa, bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin and winner of the 2020 Palestine Book Award for Against the Loveless World; Arif Anwar, author of The Storm; and Michigan MFA and Hopwood Award-winner Nawaaz Ahmed whose brilliant debut novel Radiant Fugitives is coming from Counterpoint in August 2021. Other forthcoming literary works from clients include The Other Mother by Rachel Harper (Counterpoint, 2022); How to Be A Revolutionary by South African novelist C.A. Davis (Verso Fiction); Strange Birds by Kuwaiti writer Mai al-Nakib (HarperCollins/Custom House) and Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez’s graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts (Simon & Schuster). She grew up between New Delhi and Alexandria, VA, graduated from Brown University with a degree in English and American literature and holds a diploma in French language and literature from the Sorbonne. These days, she has been dividing her time between New York City and Rhode Island.
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