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Mina Hamedi
Janklow & Nesbit Associates
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About
Mina Hamedi is a literary agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, one of the most prestigious literary agencies in New York. She joined the agency as an assistant and worked her way up to agenting. She focuses on literary fiction, upmarket commercial fiction, and select non-fiction.
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Mina Hamedi grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and is of Turkish/Iranian descent. She received a B.A. from NYU’s Gallatin School and an M.F.A. in Nonfiction from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Mina began her career in publishing at David Black Literary Agency, working with Gary Morris and Heather Jackson and then moving on to Writers House. She joined Janklow & Nesbit in 2018, where she supports co-founder Lynn Nesbit and her various authors including Andre Aciman, Robert Caro, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ronan Farrow, Andrew Sean Greer, Anand Giridharadas, Pico Iyer, and Maaza Mengiste, as well as the estates of Joan Didion, Shirley Hazzard, Charles Portis, Anne Rice, and Tom Wolfe. Mina represents adult literary fiction and nonfiction. She is interested in stories from around the world—particularly her native Turkey and Iran, though this is not a requirement! She loves fiction with Gothic-inspired atmospheres, intergenerational tales, family secrets, and deep excavations into relationships, motivations, and obsessions. She is looking for fiction with genre elements such as horror, mystery, speculative. She does not represent sci-fi or fantasy. Mina is drawn to nonfiction that tackles big ideas with a fiercely personal bent and a strong voice; writers who are working not only to uncover the undercurrents of our world but also to change them. She also seeks voices in translation and writers from underrepresented backgrounds. As a writer herself, Mina understands the complex and vulnerable process of writing and publishing one’s work. Her clients are journalists, activists, artists, attorneys, sex workers, booksellers, forest restoration advocates, and HIV pharmacists, and it is her aim to support the entirety of their careers. Some of her clients include Ruth Madievsky, Maria Kuznetsova, Sarah-Jane Collins, Mona Eltahawy, Myriam Gurba, Alana Saab, Tree Abraham, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, Naomi Falk, and Allan Martin Nava Sosa. She lives in New York with her husband and two Turkish street cats, Saffron and Lemon. She is a member of the American Association of Literary Agents (AALA) and the co-chair of the Governance Committee. Her wishlist includes (but is not limited to): In general: Fun facts about me:
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to mhamedi@janklow.com Please send me your query and the first ten pages of your manuscript. If I am interested, I will reach out! Vital Info mhamedi@janklow.com @mina_hamedi Website
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