ABOUT

Anna is a queer poet and writer interested in stories about humans and the non-human natural world. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard.

She teaches English and creative writing in France and the United States, and is the co-founder of the Nantes Writers’ Workshop.

Her writing has been supported by a Fulbright for Young American Journalists, the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, the UNESCO Manchester City of Literature, and France’s Centre National du Cinema, among others. She is at work on her first novel and co-directed the documentary Le Cas Rosa Bonheur / The Rosa Bonheur Case with Carole Cassier.

Born in Boston to Hungarian parents and raised in France, Anna grew up speaking three languages at home. She worked for several years as a news reporter in Berlin and Paris before trusting herself to make things up in order to tell the truth, aka write fiction. She loves clouds, lichen, public libraries and long train rides.

Want to know more? Listen to Anna talk on Radio France Internationale about the French painter and queer icon Rosa Bonheur. Watch her lecture on writing your way through a global crisis for Go Viral Central Asia.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Solar Salt Love, Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, essay

Interview with Bruna Dantas Lobato, Full Stop, literary criticism

Craft essay and interview with Afabwaje Kurian, Craft, literary criticism

The Rosa Bonheur Case, web-documentary

Proving the Love of Rosa Bonheur, Hidden Compass, long-form reportage

The Angel’s Story, Manchester Festival of Literature x Central Library, short story

A Taxonomy of Goodbyes, Radio Campus Paris, hybrid piece

Wayword, Finishing Line Press, poetry chapbook