Atifa
@atifabooks.bsky.social
Muslim, Bengali, American Scientist
✨SFF author (SITARA, LADY OF THE LOTUS, 2024 and BLOOD EATER 2026)
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✨Junior Agent @Crescent Literary: CLOSED to queries, opening Dec 5
✨SFF author (SITARA, LADY OF THE LOTUS, 2024 and BLOOD EATER 2026)
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✨Junior Agent @Crescent Literary: CLOSED to queries, opening Dec 5
Just you know, being randomly selected by tsa to go through extra security :)
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just you know, being randomly selected by tsa to go through extra security :)
Waiting for the results of the nyc mayoral election feels like it’s the presidential election 😩
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Waiting for the results of the nyc mayoral election feels like it’s the presidential election 😩
First Kissinger and now Cheney, Bluesky doesn’t disappoint
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
First Kissinger and now Cheney, Bluesky doesn’t disappoint
Quick Update: I’ve been closed to queries since Sept and I’ve responded to all queries by then with a final decision or an expected timeframe for when you will receive one. If you sent a query/didn’t get a reply, please resend it when I open on December 5.
October 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Quick Update: I’ve been closed to queries since Sept and I’ve responded to all queries by then with a final decision or an expected timeframe for when you will receive one. If you sent a query/didn’t get a reply, please resend it when I open on December 5.
Fashionably late to Blue Sky but sharing nonetheless! This novel is incredibly informative on how muslims were spied on post 9/11 and the implications it had (and continues to have) on community trust and immigration.
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Fashionably late to Blue Sky but sharing nonetheless! This novel is incredibly informative on how muslims were spied on post 9/11 and the implications it had (and continues to have) on community trust and immigration.
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Channeling all my feelings of rage and helplessness at what is happening to mi gente right now into a VERY special new poetry collection.
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
June 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Channeling all my feelings of rage and helplessness at what is happening to mi gente right now into a VERY special new poetry collection.
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
I’ll be taking (and providing live feedback for) one-on-one pitches at the 2025 Online Pittsburgh Writing Workshop on May 9-10! Sign up before slots fill up!
pittsburghwritingworkshop.com
pittsburghwritingworkshop.com
The 2025 Online Pittsburgh Writing Workshop
Get Your Writing Published at a Writers Conference: May 9-10, 2025
pittsburghwritingworkshop.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’ll be taking (and providing live feedback for) one-on-one pitches at the 2025 Online Pittsburgh Writing Workshop on May 9-10! Sign up before slots fill up!
pittsburghwritingworkshop.com
pittsburghwritingworkshop.com
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School library update! We’ve almost filled an entire bookshelf at my school for unaccompanied migrant children. They are thrilled to have new books to read (in 8 different languages!) 📚
Thank you all SO MUCH for your kindness and generosity 🙏🏼
Thank you all SO MUCH for your kindness and generosity 🙏🏼
April 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
School library update! We’ve almost filled an entire bookshelf at my school for unaccompanied migrant children. They are thrilled to have new books to read (in 8 different languages!) 📚
Thank you all SO MUCH for your kindness and generosity 🙏🏼
Thank you all SO MUCH for your kindness and generosity 🙏🏼
I’ll be opening to queries starting April 15! If you sent a query between December and now, you’ll have to resubmit for a response.
Can’t wait to read the great work you all have!
Can’t wait to read the great work you all have!
April 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’ll be opening to queries starting April 15! If you sent a query between December and now, you’ll have to resubmit for a response.
Can’t wait to read the great work you all have!
Can’t wait to read the great work you all have!
Hate to say it but this novel about infiltrating Muslim/activist communities is relevant as ever and is still open for editors to grab it. Can share details over email!
Learning about a white journalist wearing a hijab and trying to get muslims to talk about Hamas on the same day my client’s novel about informants in the Muslim community received a pass is just crazy. This has never been fiction for us and is *exactly* why these stories need to be published.
March 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Hate to say it but this novel about infiltrating Muslim/activist communities is relevant as ever and is still open for editors to grab it. Can share details over email!
Just letting the publishing universe know it’d be great to have ✨good news✨ for my clients in Ramadan (March)
February 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Just letting the publishing universe know it’d be great to have ✨good news✨ for my clients in Ramadan (March)
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Exciting things are happening!
February 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Exciting things are happening!
Hoping it’s not AI, but I’ve seen an uptick in book proposals for fiction work instead of the manuscript when a query comes in. Please don’t do that. Only nonfiction needs a proposal, and I don’t take nonfiction either
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hoping it’s not AI, but I’ve seen an uptick in book proposals for fiction work instead of the manuscript when a query comes in. Please don’t do that. Only nonfiction needs a proposal, and I don’t take nonfiction either
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Announcement! All the practical stuff in #kidlit publishing, coming up 3/16 + 3/18! Join me for a jam-packed 2-night course covering everything from book types to contracts and the publishing process—plus a chance to ask your pressing questions! More details: tinyurl.com/mtadfe5u
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February 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Announcement! All the practical stuff in #kidlit publishing, coming up 3/16 + 3/18! Join me for a jam-packed 2-night course covering everything from book types to contracts and the publishing process—plus a chance to ask your pressing questions! More details: tinyurl.com/mtadfe5u
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A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
February 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
I’m currently closed to general queries but I’ll be taking one-on-one live pitches at the 2025 San Diego Writing Workshop (virtual) on February 7-8. Hope to see you there!
sandiegowritingworkshop.com
sandiegowritingworkshop.com
The 2025 Online San Diego Writing Workshop
Get Your Writing Published: February 7-8, 2025
sandiegowritingworkshop.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m currently closed to general queries but I’ll be taking one-on-one live pitches at the 2025 San Diego Writing Workshop (virtual) on February 7-8. Hope to see you there!
sandiegowritingworkshop.com
sandiegowritingworkshop.com
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I’m on sub again for my picture book, Jaci and the Jaguar: The Legend of Yerba Mate 🧉
FRY BREAD x CHANG’E ON THE MOON
The Guaraní moon spirit risks it all to descend to earth for one day. Confronted by the Amazon’s fiercest hunter, she is saved by a young boy. How can she reward his generosity?
FRY BREAD x CHANG’E ON THE MOON
The Guaraní moon spirit risks it all to descend to earth for one day. Confronted by the Amazon’s fiercest hunter, she is saved by a young boy. How can she reward his generosity?
December 17, 2024 at 12:52 PM
I’m on sub again for my picture book, Jaci and the Jaguar: The Legend of Yerba Mate 🧉
FRY BREAD x CHANG’E ON THE MOON
The Guaraní moon spirit risks it all to descend to earth for one day. Confronted by the Amazon’s fiercest hunter, she is saved by a young boy. How can she reward his generosity?
FRY BREAD x CHANG’E ON THE MOON
The Guaraní moon spirit risks it all to descend to earth for one day. Confronted by the Amazon’s fiercest hunter, she is saved by a young boy. How can she reward his generosity?
I’m closed to queries as of Dec 1 and will reopen sometime early next year. Queries sent to me will be deleted, unread.
I may solicit in pitch events or via liking an “agent’s guide” post but otherwise, please send your query when I’m open next year! Thanks!
I may solicit in pitch events or via liking an “agent’s guide” post but otherwise, please send your query when I’m open next year! Thanks!
December 16, 2024 at 4:47 AM
I’m closed to queries as of Dec 1 and will reopen sometime early next year. Queries sent to me will be deleted, unread.
I may solicit in pitch events or via liking an “agent’s guide” post but otherwise, please send your query when I’m open next year! Thanks!
I may solicit in pitch events or via liking an “agent’s guide” post but otherwise, please send your query when I’m open next year! Thanks!
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It’s my one year Agentversary with @atifabooks.bsky.social 🥳
I couldn’t have asked for a better, more supportive literary agent. Thanks for taking a chance on me, Atifa!
I couldn’t have asked for a better, more supportive literary agent. Thanks for taking a chance on me, Atifa!
December 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM
It’s my one year Agentversary with @atifabooks.bsky.social 🥳
I couldn’t have asked for a better, more supportive literary agent. Thanks for taking a chance on me, Atifa!
I couldn’t have asked for a better, more supportive literary agent. Thanks for taking a chance on me, Atifa!
Learning about a white journalist wearing a hijab and trying to get muslims to talk about Hamas on the same day my client’s novel about informants in the Muslim community received a pass is just crazy. This has never been fiction for us and is *exactly* why these stories need to be published.
December 5, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Learning about a white journalist wearing a hijab and trying to get muslims to talk about Hamas on the same day my client’s novel about informants in the Muslim community received a pass is just crazy. This has never been fiction for us and is *exactly* why these stories need to be published.
Closing to queries at the end of the month (before things get busy for me near the new year)!
My mswl is always MG/YA SFF!!
My mswl is always MG/YA SFF!!
November 26, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Closing to queries at the end of the month (before things get busy for me near the new year)!
My mswl is always MG/YA SFF!!
My mswl is always MG/YA SFF!!
Did some health insurance math and I overspent $1200 this year because I was on the wrong plan…yall know what I coulda done with that much money?? 😩
November 25, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Did some health insurance math and I overspent $1200 this year because I was on the wrong plan…yall know what I coulda done with that much money?? 😩
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Everyone tells you to “stick to one genre” and “make it more commercial,” but here I am writing poetry, prose, and picture books in THREE languages and one of those books sold in less than a week on sub.
There will always be people out there who support your work and want to read it. Don’t give up!
There will always be people out there who support your work and want to read it. Don’t give up!
November 20, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Everyone tells you to “stick to one genre” and “make it more commercial,” but here I am writing poetry, prose, and picture books in THREE languages and one of those books sold in less than a week on sub.
There will always be people out there who support your work and want to read it. Don’t give up!
There will always be people out there who support your work and want to read it. Don’t give up!