Anne Valente

Anne Valente is the author of two novels, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down and The Desert Sky Before Us, as well as the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names. Her short stories appear in One Story, American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review and The Chicago Tribune, and her essays appear in Guernica, The Believer, Literary Hub and The Washington Post. Her work has received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Ragdale Foundation and the Women's International Study Center and has been recognized by Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Originally from St. Louis, she currently lives in upstate New York where she teaches creative writing at Hamilton College.