Anya Achtenberg
Anya Achtenberg is an award-winning fiction writer/poet whose publications include Blue Earth (novel); The Stories of Devil-Girl (novella); poetry collections The Stone of Language; I Know What the Small Girl Knew; individual works in many literary magazines, including Harvard Review; Gargoyle Magazine; Tupelo Quarterly; Beltway Poetry Quarterly; Poet Lore. Awards/distinctions received include Southern Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story, New Letters, Raymond Carver Story Contest, and Minnesota State Arts Board. Completing: novel History Artist, with an ensemble of characters centered around a young Cambodian woman born at the moment the U.S. invasion begins; poetry collection, land in water rise in flame. Her blog Writing in Upheaval explores her organic approach to writing craft that expands creativity, counters historical amnesia, examines how trauma and narration connect, and how history sits in us.