The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing and the Rifkind Center present

Interview with agent Anjali Singh from Ayesha Pande Literary

moderated by Guest Professor David Groff

Thursday April 27, 5 - 6PM
Rifkind Center NAC 6/316

Anjali Singh 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. 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 and Saleem Haddad. ( read more)

David Groff is a poet and editor whose new book, Live in Suspense, will be published by Trio House Press this Spring.