ANJALI SINGH

A South Asian woman with chin-length hair in her 40s and a floral blouse.

Anjali Singh has been a literary agent for the past eight years. She began her career in publishing as an international book scout in 1996 and went on to have a career as an editor at Vintage Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon + Schuster, and finally as Editorial Director at Other Press. Among the literary authors she currently represents are Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers), Susan Abulhawa (Against the Loveless World, winner of the Palestine Book Award and Arab American Book Award, finalist for the Aspen Words Prize), Nawaaz Ahmed (Radiant Fugitives, a PEN-Faulkner Finalist), Praveen Herat (Between This World and the Next, winner of the 2023 Restless Books Immigrant Fiction Prize) and Zara Chowdhary’s memoir The Lucky Ones. 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.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

Literary fiction

SAMPLE TITLES OR AUTHORS

Nawaaz Ahmed, Radiant Fugitives
CA Davids, How to be a Revolutionary
Rachel M. Harper, The Other Mother

Specializes In

FICTION: Graphic Novels, Literary Fiction, Multi-Cultural/Global Fiction

NONFICTION: Memoir, Multicultural/Global Perspectives

Considers

FICTION: Graphic Novels, Literary Fiction, Multi-Cultural/Global Fiction

NONFICTION: Multicultural/Global Perspectives, Memoir, Gift Books