Anna Solomon
Instructor Consultant
About Anna
Anna Solomon is the author of three novels—The Book of V., Leaving Lucy Pear, and The Little Bride—and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, One Story, The Boston Globe, Tablet, and elsewhere. Anna is the recipient of awards from MacDowell, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, and The Missouri Review, among others, and her short story “The Lobster Mafia Story” was chosen as Boston’s One City One Story read. Anna is co-editor with Eleanor Henderson of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers. Previously, she worked as an award-winning journalist for National Public Radio’s Living on Earth. A graduate of Brown University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Anna teaches writing at Barnard College, Warren Wilson’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, Brooklyn College, and the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center. Born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Anna lives in Brooklyn, New York.