NOTE: event time will be confirmed in early January.
Alia Habib will talk about working with literary agents as an academic, publishing for broader audiences, and about her forthcoming book, Take It From Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch.
Alia is a Vice President and literary agent at The Gernert Company, which she joined in 2017 after starting her publishing career as a publicist at HMH and working as an agent at McCormick Literary. Her tastes include narrative nonfiction, memoir and literary fiction. Alia graduated from Barnard College and earned an MA in English Literature with a concentration in the nineteenth-century novel from Rutgers. Her book Take It From Me, a guide to nonfiction writing careers for emerging and established writers, will be available from Pantheon in January 2026. She lives in Brooklyn.