About Anne


Anne Burt's debut novel, The Dig, is a March 2023 American Booksellers' Association Indie Next pick and the Strand Bookstore's mystery selection of the month. Anne is also the editor of My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family and coeditor, with Christina Baker Kline, of About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror. Her essays and fiction have appeared in numerous publications and venues, including Salon, NPR, and The Christian Science Monitor; she is a past winner of Meridian’s Editors’ Prize in Fiction. Anne graduated from Yale in 1989 with a BA in history, and from NYU in 1997 with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in New York City.

This is me. Age seven, doing what I do best. My grandmother sketched this pastel in her Woodstock, New York home in 1975. It lives on my desk to this day.