Beniamino Ambrosi is a literary agent with The Cheney Agency. He is from Bari, southern Italy, and has a masterÕs degree in Languages and Literature from the University of Florence. He graduated from the PhD program in English Language Literature at the University of Florence. During and after graduate school, he worked as a literary translator, translating Paul Murray and Salvatore Scibona into Italian, among others. He moved to New York in 2009, and worked as a literary scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates for over a decade, advising international book publishers in over 20 countries, as well as film/TV clients such as Warner Bros. and Netflix. He made the switch to agenting at the end of 2021, joining The Cheney Agency as foreign rights director, and starting his list as agent, representing English-language nonfiction and literary fiction, and authors in translation. A Zev Birger Jerusalem Fellow, Beniamino currently serves on the Young ProfessionalÕs Committee of Words Without Borders.