Anjali Singh
Anjali Singh
Anjali Singh founded her agency in 2024 after 28 years in the publishing industry. Before the agenting chapter of her life, which she launched at the Harlem-based boutique agency Ayesha Pande Literary, she worked as Editorial Director at Other Press, as Editor at Vintage Books and Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Simon + Schuster, and as a literary scout for international publishers. She is best known for having championed Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis after stumbling across it on a visit to Paris and has always been drawn to the thrill of discovering new writers; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Samantha Hunt, and Saleem Haddad are all writers whose careers she helped launch. She focuses on literary fiction and memoir as well as representing graphic novel writers and illustrators across all age ranges.
Some of her authors include Tessa Hulls whose graphic novel Feeding Ghosts won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir; Bridgett Davis, author of the acclaimed memoirs The World According to Fannie Davis and Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss and Legacy; Zara Chowdhary, author of The Lucky Ones, winner of India’s Shakti Bhatt prize and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith award for non-fiction; and Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award.
She is also very drawn to international fiction and is proud to represent internationally bestselling Palestinian author susan abulhawa, author of Mornings in Jenin and Against the Loveless World; CA Davids, whose How to Be a Revolutionary won all three of the most prestigious literary prizes in her native South Africa; Deena Mohamed, creator of the multiple award-winning graphic novel Shubeik Lubeik, set in a fictional Cairo where wishes are for sale; Mai Al-Nakib, author of the sweeping Kuwaiti family saga An Unlasting Home; and Saleem Haddad, whose second novel Floodlines tells the story of a British-Iraqi family of artists and Danish-Egyptian journalist Mohammed Massoud Morsi, author of the literary debut The Hair of the Pigeon, the love story of two Palestinian teens born in Yarmouk, both forthcoming in 2026.
She lives in NYC with her husband and two teenage daughters. In addition to working as an editor and agent, she has worked as a French translator (and loves a good excuse to practice her French!) and co-founded a speaker’s bureau. She is a member of the AALA.
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