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Anne Valente

Anne Valente is the author of two novels, The Desert Sky Before Us (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2019) and Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (William Morrow, 2016), as well as the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names (Dzanc Books, 2014). Her fiction appears in One Story, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and the Chicago Tribune, and her essays appear in The Believer, Literary Hub, Catapult and the Washington Post.

Features & Reviews, Mini-Interviews

Anne Valente

Feb 6, 2020

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #206: Tina May Hall

“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
Rumpus Original

Anne Valente

Dec 4, 2018

Killer Whales

This well of violation, this sonogrammed sea of loss.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Anne Valente

Aug 7, 2017

Can We Even Trust Ourselves?: A Conversation with Jac Jemc

Jac Jemc discusses The Grip of It, revision, and returning to the theme of trustworthiness again and again.
Rumpus Original

Anne Valente

Aug 10, 2012

My Body, My Machine

I run so I can inhabit my own body. I run so that in moments like these, when my lack of power in this world becomes more violently apparent, I can feel the strength of my own body, enough to…