Isabel Mendía
The Cheney Agency
Likely Open
Updated: 9/25/2025
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Isabel Mendía was born and raised in the Cuban American diaspora of Miami, Florida, and studied History at Yale University.
After graduation, she interned at Sterling Lord Literistic and Abrams Books, before joining The Cheney Agency in July 2018.
She is looking to represent a range of nonfiction, including cultural criticism, narrative reportage, science, and history.
A native Spanish speaker, Mendía is particularly interested in Latinx stories, and in writing that makes sense of first- and second-generation immigrant experiences.
She is also attracted to projects that have a progressive political mission, and that are responding in some way to colonialism, capitalism, racism, and the climate crisis.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
Nonfiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
Not Available or None Listed
Nonfiction
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Criticism
- Economics
- Environment
- History
- Journalism
- Science
- Social Justice
Genres Not Represented
None listed or not available
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