Anita Felicelli

Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Felicelli’s essays, reviews, and criticism have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times (Modern Love), Slate, Salon, SF Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Catapult, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She graduated from UC Berkeley and UC Berkeley School of Law. She is Fiction Chair of the National Book Critics Circle for 2022–2023.