Anne Valente

rdf:langString Anne Valente

rdf:langString Anne Valente

rdf:langString Anne Valente

rdf:langString St. Louis, Missouri

rdf:langString Copper Nickel Prize

rdf:langString Dzanc Short Story Prize

rdf:langString Notable Story, Best American Non-Required Reading

rdf:langString The Best Small Fictions

rdf:langString Bowling Green State University

rdf:langString University of Cincinnati

rdf:langString University of Illinois

rdf:langString English

rdf:langString An Elegy for Mathematics

rdf:langString By Light We Knew Our Names

rdf:langString Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down

rdf:langString Short-story writer, essayist, novelist

rdf:langString Anne Valente is an American writer. Her debut short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names, won the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize and was released in September 2014. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook, An Elegy for Mathematics. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, The Kenyon Review and others. In 2014, Anne was the Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her essays have been published in The Believer, Electric Literature and The Washington Post. In 2016, Valente's debut novel, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins. Her second novel, The Desert Sky Before Us, was published by HarperCollins in 2019. Valente is currently represented by Emma Patterson at Brandt & Hochman She has taught creative writing and creative non-fiction at Bowling Green State University, McNeese State University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Utah, University of Cincinnati, and Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Anne Valente is currently an assistant professor in the department of Literature and Creative Writing at Hamilton College.