Anca Szilagyi

Seattle, WA 98102

E-mail:

anca.l.szilagyi@gmail.com

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Author's Bio

Anca L. Szilágyi's fiction appears in Moss, Fairy Tale Review, Gastronomica, The Massachusetts Review, Washington City Paper, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Kirkus, and Jewish in Seattle, among other publications. 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 online at Southern New Hampshire University's MA program in English and Creative Writing. DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, her debut novel, released from Lanternfish Press December 2017. The Seattle Review of Books called it "a fantastic debut...a product of alchemy, a creation of unearthly talents."

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won:

Artist Trust / Gar LaSalle Storytelling Award (2015); Jack Straw Fellowship (2015); 4Culture Art Project Grant (2014); Made at Hugo House Fellowship (2012-13); Richard Blessing Award (2010); Special Mention, Salem College International Literary Awards (2012)

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Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

(v.) by Anastacia-Renee

Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Favorite Books:

The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, Burning Your Boats, Days of Abandonment, The Land of Green Plums, View with a Grain of Sand, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Satanic Verses, The Tin Drum.

Favorite Authors:

Elena Ferrante, Mavis Gallant, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Herta Muller, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov.