Telling the Stories of the City: Writing Creative Non-Fiction

Anna is a writer, creative writing instructor, and editor. Her poetry collection, Empires of the Everyday (McClelland & Stewart), examines how life is defined by the city, with specific attention to Toronto. Her writing has been first runner-up in PRISM international’s Pacific Poetry Prize; shortlisted for The Fiddlehead Creative Nonfiction Contest and Room‘s Poetry Contest; longlisted for CBC’s nonfiction prize; and published in Arc, Brick, Canthius, Riddle Fence, Autostraddle, and others.

Anna holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and she is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education Creative Writing Certificate, where she received the Janice Colbert Poetry Award. Anna teaches creative writing at University of Toronto and University of Guelph.