Anya Achtenberg, an award-winning fiction writer/poet, author of Blue Earth (novel), The Stories of Devil-Girl (novella); poetry books, The Stone of Language, and I Know What the Small Girl Knew, is currently completing another novel, History Artist, centering in characters converging after the Khmer Rouge regime, around a young Cambodian/African American woman born with the U.S. invasion of Cambodia; and a book of poetry, Matadors at the Crossing. Anya’s international creative writing teaching offers creatively expansive and cutting-edge approaches through her Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World Workshops and The Disobedient Writer Workshop Series. She’s also a manuscript consultant and coach. Her forthcoming blog, Writing in Upheaval, connects the larger world and its issues with our fine craft of writing.
aachtenberg@gmail.com