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THE SHORT VERSION
Anna Polonyi is the author of the novel TOMORROW WE’LL BE PREY, forthcoming with Ecco/HarperCollins in February 2027. She holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University. Her writing has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Manchester UNESCO City of Literature and a Fulbright, among others. She lives in Nantes, France, where she writes about forgotten chapters of history and encounters with the non-human natural world.
THE LONG VERSION
Anna Polonyi is a queer French-American-Hungarian writer interested in desire, intimacy, legacy and the natural world. TOMORROW WE’LL BE PREY, her first novel, took ten years to write.
She first heard about the myth of the Beast of the Gévaudan from a stranger in a carshare ride, and the story stuck with her ever since. With an early draft of the novel, she quit her job in Paris and moved to Iowa to pursue an M.F.A. in fiction with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
She now lives in Nantes, France where she teaches English and creative writing, and runs the Nantes Writers’ Workshop, a week-long prose workshop. She writes the newsletter The Secret Logic, which delivers a mystery list and literary excerpt each month to your inbox.
Gratitude is due to the Fulbright for Young American Journalists, the Richard E. Guthrie Post-Graduate Fellowship, the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, the Iowa Lakeside Lab, UNESCO Manchester City of Literature, and France’s Centre National du Cinema, among others, for supporting her work. She studied French and German history and literature as an undergraduate at Harvard and also holds an M.A. in Journalism and International Relations from Sciences Po Paris.
In a previous life, she worked as a news reporter in Berlin and Paris and her favorite part was asking questions. She loves facilitating workshops and is currently learning how to dance tango and identify clouds.