PJ Mark is an agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. He has worked in the publishing industry for sixteen years, as an international book scout, a journalist covering the book publishing industry, and as a literary agent since 2002. He is most interested in literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Representative clients include Dinaw Mengestu, Samantha Hunt, Josh Weil, Ed Park, Sarah Manguo, Kevin Moffett, Andrew Rice, Abrahm Lustgarten, Maggie Nelson, Amy Fusselman, Ryan Boudinot and Craig Thompson. Upcoming titles include How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu, Three Delays by Charlie Smith, Meeks by Julia Holmes, You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin, Take Me Home by Brian Leung, and There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From by Bryan Charles. His authors have: been honored three times as “5 Under 35” writers by the National Book Award Foundation; been named a “20 Under 40” author by The New Yorker; received the Guardian First Book Award, the Prix du Premier Roman, the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for First Fiction, The Rome Prize, The Narrative Prize, The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism; been shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Young Lions Award, the John Sargent Award for First Novel, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award; been named a TIME magazine book of the year, a Top 10 Cultural Moment of the Decade by The Atlantic; received Lannan Foundation fellowships, the MacArthur Foundation Grant, Fulbright fellowships; been published in The New Yorker, Granta, the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Harper’s, and elsewhere.
