Автор: Anya Achtenberg

Anya Achtenberg is an award-winning fiction writer and poet. Her publications include the novel “Blue Earth”, and autobiographical novella “The Stories of Devil-Girl”, both with Modern History Press; and poetry books, “The Stone of Language”, published by West End Press after being finalist in five poetry competitions; and “I Know What the Small Girl Knew” (Holy Cow! Press). Her short fiction has received awards from Coppola”s Zoetrope: All-Story, New Letters, the Raymond Carver Story Contest, and others.She is at work on History Artist, a novel centering in a Cambodian woman born of an African American father and Cambodian mother at the moment the U.S. bombing of Cambodia began. This work received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is also writing a book of poetry and short prose, The Matadors at the Crossing.Anya teaches creative writing workshops and classes around the country and online with growing international participation, and offers manuscript consultations and coaching for fiction writers, memoirists, and poets. She also organizes groups of writers, artists, filmmakers and educators to travel to Cuba. Along with her numerous fiction and memoir workshops, she developed and teaches a series of multi-genre workshops on Writing for Social Change (Re-Dream a Just World; Place and Exile/ Borders and Crossings; and Yearning and Justice: Writing the Unlived Life), which she has started writing into a movable workshop.Visit Anya at www.AnyaAchtenberg.com