Annie Liontas' debut novel, Let Me Explain You (Scribner), was featured in The New York Times Book Review as Editor's Choice and was selected by the ABA as an Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next title.  She is the co-editor of the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors.  Annie’s work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Gay Magazine, BOMB, Guernica, McSweeney’s, and Ninth Letter, and she is a contributor to Tolstoy Together: Reading War & Peace with Yiyun Li. She served as Visiting Writer at UCDavis, University of Massachusetts, and Bryn Mawr College before joining George Washington University.  Annie has served as a mentor for Pen City’s incarcerated writers, working with the Prison Writing Project at the Connally Maximum Security Penitentiary.  The Gloss, her interview series with women and genderqueer writers, is running at BOMB, The Believer, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.  Her nonfiction was chosen by Roxane Gay as “Best of 2019.”  Her informed memoir, "Sex with a Brain Injury" is due out in 2024.  Annie is a member of The Claw, a salon for women and genderqueer writers. 

Website: www.annieliontas.com

Twitter Username: @aliontas

Publications

• Let Me Explain You , Scribner (July 14, 2015)
• A Manner of Being , University of Massachusetts Press (December 2015)

Awards

• Indies Introduce Debut Authors(2015)
• Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation Award(2014)

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Syracuse University (August 2013)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry