Anca Szilagyi

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Chicago, IL 60645
Email: 
anca.l.szilagyi@gmail.com
Website: 
ancawrites.com
Twitter: 
@ancawrites

Author's Bio

Anca L. Szilágyi is the author of Daughters of the Air, which Shelf Awareness called "a striking debut from a writer to watch" and which The Seattle Review of Books called "a creation of unearthly talents." Her fiction appears in Lilith Magazine, Confrontation, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, and Orion, 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 Chicago and teaches online at Hugo House, StoryStudio Chicago, the Newberry Library, and at Southern New Hampshire University. Her second novel is forthcoming in 2022.

Education: 
University of Washington, Seattle MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Tin House Summer Workshop
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
Catapult
,
Electric Literature
,
Los Angeles Review of Books
,
Orion
,
The Nervous Breakdown

Fiction

Anthologies:
Lilac City Fairy Tales Vol. IV, Towers and Dungeons (Scablands Books, 2018)
,
The Middle of Nowhere: Horror in Rural America (Pill Hill Press, 2010)
Book:
Daughters of the Air (Lanternfish Press, 2017)
Chapbook:
Sugar (Chin Music Press, 2018)
Journals:
Antigonish Review
,
Ascent Aspirations
,
Cafe Irreal
,
Cicada
,
Confrontation
,
Fairy Tale Review
,
Gastronomica
,
Istanbul Literary Review
,
Massachusetts Review
,
Monkeybicycle
,
Moss
,
Pindeldyboz
,
Rockhurst Review
,
Southern Ocean Review
,
Western Humanities Review
,
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought
Prizes won: 

Lilith Magazine Fiction Prize (2017); 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

Favorite authors: 
Elena Ferrante, Mavis Gallant, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Herta Muller, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov.
What I'm reading now: 
In the Human Zoo by Jennifer Perrine, Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, Ada by Vladimir Nabokov

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Hungarian American, Jewish, Romanian
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Queens
Raised in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
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Last update: May 20, 2021