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Anca Szilagyi [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
anca.l.szilagyi@gmail.com
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." Buzzfeed Books called her second novel, Dreams Under Glass, "a novel for our modern times." 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 Atlas Obscura.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Elena Ferrante, Mavis Gallant, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Herta Muller, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Laurie Colwin, Iris Murdoch.
Twitter/X: 
@ancawrites
Born in: 
Queens, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Website: 
https://ancawrites.com [2]
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)

Education: 
University of Washington, Seattle
Agent/Agency name: 
Erin Clyburn
What I'm reading now: 
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Writers Retreats: 
Tin House Summer Workshop
Vermont Studio Center
Identifies as: 
Hungarian American
Jewish
Romanian
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/anca_szilagyi [2] https://ancawrites.com