Anita Felicelli is the author of How We Know Our Time Travelers. Her other books include Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning Love Songs for a Lost Continent.
Anita’s short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Midnight Breakfast, Air/Light, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She has contributed essays and criticism to the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Alta Journal, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times (Modern Love), among other places. Her short stories and poems have been anthologized and in 2023, one of her short stories was performed as part of Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts. Her work has been recognized by the Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards and the Los Angeles Press Club.
Anita edits Alta Journal‘s California Book Club. She served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle from 2021-2024. Anita lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, and she is represented by Melissa Danaczko of the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.
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