Anahid Nersessian
Biography
Anahid Nersessian was born and raised in New York City. She is the author of three books—(Verso, 2022; U of Chicago P, 2021), (Chicago, 2020), and (Harvard UP, 2015)—and is currently writing a book called How to Have Sex in a Poem, under contract with FSG. The former poetry editor of Granta magazine, she is also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, New Left Review, n+1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, Bidoun, Poetry Magazine, Mousse and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor in the Department of English at UCLA.