Annie Marhefka

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Baltimore, MD
Maryland US

Author's Bio

Annie Marhefka is a writer in Baltimore, Maryland; she is the recipient of the 2024 Eunice Williams Nonfiction Prize, has been featured on The Slowdown Show, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Annie is the Executive Director at Yellow Arrow Publishing, a Baltimore-based nonprofit empowering women-identifying writers. Annie has received support from the Maryland State Arts Council, Gullkistan Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and Tin House. She has a BA in creative writing from Washington College and an MBA, and is an MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore where she was Co-Managing Editor of Welter. Her collection, Strangers We Know By Heart, is available from Garden Party Collective. When Annie is not writing, she is usually trying to find her way back to the water. Follow Annie on Instagram @anniemarhefka and at anniemarhefka.com. 

 

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
(mac)ro(mic)
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Anti-Heroin Chic
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Ayaskala
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Bright Flash Literary Review
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Capsule Stories
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Corvus Review
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Door is a Jar Magazine
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Fatal Flaw
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HAD
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Hellebore
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Motherly
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Orange Blossom Review
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Reckon Review
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Remington Review
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The Citron Review
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Variant Literature
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Versification
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Poetry

Journals:
Blue Heron Review
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Brave Voices Magazine
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Hallowzine
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Sledgehammer Lit
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Prizes won: 

Garden Party Collective 2025 chapbook contest (winner)

Tupelo Quarterly 2025 Prose Open contest (finalist)

Michael Klein Social Justice Fellowship (University of Baltimore)

Selection for Winter Workshop, Tin House 2024

Writing Residency, Gullkistan Center for Creativity 2024

Grant Recipient, Maryland State Arts Council 2024

Finalist, Black River Chapbook Contest

Finalist, Digging Press Chapbook Contest

Finalist, Chestnut Review Chapbook Contest

Finalist, Pigeon Pages Flash Contest

Exhibition at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 2023

Nominated for Best of the Net (2022, 2023), Pushcart Prize (2022)

More Information

Gives readings: 
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Travels for readings: 
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Last update: Jan 19, 2026