About the Author

Anya Achtenberg, an award-winning fiction writer as well as poet, recently has seen her novella The Stories of Devil-Girl released on CD, and her novel-in-progress, More Than the Wind, excerpted in Harvard Review. Her first book of poetry, I Know What the Small Girl Knew, was published by Holy Cow! Press. She has taught creative writing widely, including at New York University, Hamline University, and the University of New Mexico; for writers' organisations such as The International Women's Writing Guild and The Loft in Minnesota; and with young adults re-entering school. She teaches courses on Writing for Social Change, sometimes co-teaching with writer-activist Demetria Martinez.