Photo By Beowulf Sheehan
Alia Hanna Habib is a Vice President and literary agent at The Gernert Company, where she represents MacArthur Fellows, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, National Book Award finalists, and numerous New York Times bestselling authors. She was profiled by New York Magazine for their special issue on “The 49 Most Powerful New Yorkers (You’ve Never Heard Of).” She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Her book TAKE IT FROM ME, a guide to nonfiction writing careers for emerging and established writers, will be published by Pantheon in January of 2026.