Anya Achtenberg
Anya Achtenberg is an award-winning fiction writer as well as poet. Her recently completed novel, “More Than the Wind,” was excerpted in “Harvard Review”; and her novella, “The Stories of Devil-Girl,” was published in June 2008 by Modern History Press. Her second book of poetry, “The Stone of Language,” was published in 2004 by West End Press (Albuquerque) after being a finalist in 5 poetry competitions. Her stories have received awards from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Zoetrope: All-Story,” “New Letters,” the Asheville Fiction Writers Workshop, the Raymond Carver Story Contest, and others. Her first book of poetry, “I Know What the Small Girl Knew,” was published by “Holy Cow! Press” (MN). She is at work on a novel centering on the experience of a Cambodian woman born of an African American father at the moment the bombing of Cambodia by U.S. forces began. She has taught creative writing widely at numerous colleges, universities, and conferences. She has written curriculum for “at-risk” youth in and out of the public schools. She currently teaches writer’s workshops and classes throughout the country, and is the founder and author of “Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World,” a series of multi-genre workshops on writing for social change. She is in the process of writing a book on the subject. She also teaches online for Writers.com/writers on the net, and offers manuscript consultations for writers of fiction, memoir, and poetry. |
The Stories of Devil-Girl
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