Anne Valente

Anne Valente is the author of two novels, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016) and The Desert Sky Before Us (William Morrow, 2019), as well as the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names, which won the 2014 Dzanc Prize. Her fiction appears in American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review and The Chicago Tribune, and her essays appear in Guernica, Literary Hub, The Believer and The Washington Post. She lives in upstate New York where she teaches creative writing at Hamilton College.