Anca Szilagyi

Author's Bio

Anca Szilagyi's fiction has been published in Canada, the United States, Turkey, and New Zealand. Her book reviews have appeared in Shenandoah and regularly on the Ploughshares blog. Born in Queens and raised in Brooklyn, she holds degrees from McGill University, Columbia University, and the University of Washington. Currently, she lives in Seattle, where she teaches creative writing at Richard Hugo House and is working on a collection of short stories and a novel.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:

The Middle of Nowhere: Horror in Rural America (Pill Hill Press, 2010)

Journals:

Antigonish Review, Ascent Aspirations, Cafe Irreal, Istanbul Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, Pindeldyboz, Rockhurst Review, Southern Ocean Review, Western Humanities Review, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought

Prizes:

Made at Hugo House Fellowship (2012-13); Richard Blessing Award (2010); Special Mention, Salem College International Literary Awards (2012)

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergovic

Favorite Books:

The Tin Drum, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Satanic Verses, The Bloody Chamber, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

Favorite Authors:

Gunter Grass, Betty Smith, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Mavis Gallant, Italo Calvino

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Listing last updated: April 3, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Hungarian American, Jewish, Romanian

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, French

Born in:

Queens, NY

Raised in:

Brooklyn, NY

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews