Anna Solomon is the author of three acclaimed novels—The Book of V., Leaving Lucy Pear, and The Little Bride—and a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize.

In addition, Anna has been coaching, editing, and teaching other writers for almost twenty years—“with incredible care, patience, and insight.”

And she’s been copywriting and creating content for just as long, with a specialty in purpose-driven organizations and brands—with results that prompt unsolicited thanks, including a recent email that called her “a gift.”

Previously, she worked as an award-winning journalist for National Public Radio’s Living on Earth.

Anna’s short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Ploughshares, One Story, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, Tablet, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of awards from MacDowell, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute, the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, and The Missouri Review, among others, and her short story “The Lobster Mafia Story” was chosen as Boston’s One City One Story read. She is also co-editor with Eleanor Henderson of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers.

A graduate of Brown University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Anna teaches writing at Barnard College, Warren Wilson’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, and the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center. She was born and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her two children.

LISTEN:

Judaism Unbound
Anna gets into The Book of V.’s big questions with Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg

Unorthodox
Anna talks unorthodox Purim ideas with host Stephanie Butnick

Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books
Anna talks with host Zibby Owens about The Book of V.

First Draft
Anna talks with host Mitzi Rapkin about The Book of V., her writing process, mother-daughter relationships, and more

NPR's Here & Now
Anna talks with host Robin Young about the book, the 1920s, being an outsider, Virginia Woolf, and more

First Draft
Mitzi Rapkin talks with Anna about Leaving Lucy Pear, the writing process, motherhood, Prohibition, mental health, and more.

Anna and Clare Burson on WBUR's Radio Boston
Listen here.

YidLit podcast with Anna up now at The Forward
Anna talks with Allison Yarrow about the book, the history-behind-the-book, “women's fiction,” and more. Listen now.

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LitHub: Profile
Brian Gresko talks with Anna about politics, playfulness, and the secret history of Queen Vashti

Dead Darlings
An interview with Sara Shukla about sex, power, Jonathan Safran Foer, and story/Story.

WBUR: The ARTery
Katherine Ouellette talks with Anna about feminism through the ages and more.

Lilith
Anna talks with Yona Zeldis McDonough about The Book of V. for a favorite “frankly feminist” magazine.

Bibliophile: Q&A
The Boston Globe's Amy Sutherland interviews Anna about books she loves, her current book "shrine," and what she's excited to read next.

Jewish Book Council
Anna talks writing advice, Leaving Lucy Pear's cover, her research process, more. 

Book Club Babble
Did you ever imagine how Lucy would have been different had she been raised by Bea?

Boston Magazine
Hubbub gets Anna talking about lobster mafias, growing up in Gloucester, and One City One Story.

WATCH:

Good Morning America
Anna talks with ABC’s Deborah Roberts about The Book of V., the GMA Book Club pick for May.

One Book One Hadassah
Anna talks with Hadassah Magazine editor Lisa Hostein about The Book of V., Hadassah’s One Book pick for July/August.

Sheltering in Place
Anna talks with host Maris Kreizman about the book, quarantining, and quarantining while being a woman while “touring” with a book.

Quarantine(ish) Book Club
Anna talks with Judith Rosenbaum of the Jewish Women’s Archive.

Authors at the Table
Anna chats The Book of V. with the Jewish Book Council staff and takes questions from viewers in this Zoom webinar.

Anna recommends…

For BookPage
Anna recommends 3 books she's been loving.  

Writerly Advice: Poets & Writers
Anna's contribution to the wonderful Writers Recommend column 

Thompson Hotels New York: Influencers
Anna dishes on NYC lit haunts and her home borough of Brooklyn.