Anita Felicelli is the author of the short story collection How We Know Our Time Travelers, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Northern California Book Awards and the 2024 Foreword Indies Award for short story collections.
Anita’s other books include Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning Love Songs for a Lost Continent. Her 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, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times (Modern Love), among other places. Her short stories have been anthologized and also 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 National A&E Awards.
Anita is the books editor at Alta Journal. She sat on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle from 2021-2024 (acting as chair of the fiction award in 2022 and VP of fundraising in 2021 and 2023) and served as a juror for the 2025 Kirkus nonfiction prize. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
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