Bio
Anita Gill is a writer, editor, and instructor.
Her writing has received support from Anaphora Literary Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Tin House Workshop. Her honors include two Fulbright Fellowships in Creative Writing, notable listings in Best American Essays along with nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Kiese Laymon selected her essay, “Hair” as the winner of 2018 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction.
Anita’s essays, memoir, and satire have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, Kweli, and elsewhere. Her interviews and book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, and Hypertext Magazine.
Anita is a proud member of Women Who Submit, an organization that educates and encourages writers of marginalized genders to get published. She founded the Westside LA Chapter in 2017.
She is based in Chicago where she serves as the Nonfiction Editor for Hypertext Magazine.
Photo by Aneris Photography