Author Visit: Ananda Lima

Join us for a lively evening with Ananda Lima as she will discuss her latest book, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, about a writer who slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.

Books will be available for sale, courtesy of our neighborhood bookstore, The Book Table, and the author will autograph books after the program

About Ananda

Ananda Lima is a poet, translator, and fiction writer, author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books, 2024), and Mother/land  (Black Lawrence Press, 2021, winner of the Hudson Prize).  Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), as well as publications such as The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Witness,  and elsewhere.  She has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, and will be a Fall 2024 Flagler College  Storytellers—Author in Residence. She has served as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program and currently serves as a Program Curator at Story Studio and as a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago.