Anne Kniggendorf a writer/editor for the Kansas City Public Library and the author of Secret Kansas City and Kansas City Scavenger (Reedy Press). She has bylines in the Smithsonian Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Ploughshares, LitHub, Electric Lit, the Glasgow Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, and Bluestem, NPR, the Kansas City Star, and other Kansas City-based publications. She's the producer of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast. Her MFA is from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Website: annekniggendorf.com

Twitter Username: @annekniggendorf

Publications

• "Even when he was in his 20s, Winston Churchill was already on the verge of greatness" , Smithsonian Magazine (September 19, 2016)
• A Conversation with Margot Livesey, author of "Mercury" , Glasgow Review of Books (October 17, 2016)
• "Blowing Up Rusty War Tropes and Bolstering the Female Combatant: A Conversation with Whitney Terrell" , Los Angeles Review of Books (June 2016)
• "The Horrors of the Iraq War Run Backward in 'The Good Lieutenant'" , Chicago Review of Books (June 27, 2016)
• "Jar Roses" , Saturday Evening Post (September 2015)
• "I Was of Three Minds" and "The Youth Minister and His Wife Go to the Pool" , Bluestem
• Long Before WWII, Winston Churchill was One Bad-Ass 24-Year-Old , Chicago Review of Books (October 3, 2016)

Employment

• Writer/editor at Kansas City Public Library (October 2021 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in philosophy/historical mathematics from St. John's College (May 1997)
• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Uinversity of Missouri-Kansas City (May 2014)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction