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Presented By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Presentation and Q&A: "What You Need to Know About Querying & Working With An Agent"

Agent Anjali Singh, Pande Literary

Anjali Singh Anjali Singh
Anjali Singh
This event is open to MFA students, English PhD students, Zell Fellows, and recent MFA alumni only. Please email asbates@umich.edu for login instructions.

Anjali Singh is an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary, a boutique agency based in Harlem best known for representing Ibram X. Kendi, Danielle Evans and Patricia Engel. She started her career in publishing in 1996 as a literary scout. Formerly Editorial Director at Other Press, she has also worked as an editor at Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Vintage Books. 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. Among the literary novelists whose careers she helped launch as an editor are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Samantha Hunt, Preeta Samarasan and Saleem Haddad.

As an agent, she represents 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 Against the Loveless World, winner of the 2021 Palestine Book Award and Arab Book Award and shortlisted for the Aspen Prize; and Michigan MFA Nawaaz Ahmed, author of the debut novel Radiant Fugitives, long-listed for the 2021 Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize. Rachel Harper’s 3rd novel, The Other Mother (Counterpoint, May), a story that centers love, race and queer identity, and Mai Al-Nakib’s debut An Unlasting Home (HarperCollins/Custom House/April) a multigenerational saga set in Kuwait, are both forthcoming in 2022. She is on the lookout for character-driven fiction or non-fiction works that reflect an engagement with the world around us and graphic novels for all ages. She grew up between New Delhi and Alexandria, VA, graduated from Brown University and holds a diploma in French language and literature from the Sorbonne. She is a devoted New Yorker but still manages to spend a great deal of time in Rhode Island.

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