Anita Felicelli

Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning Love Songs for a Lost Continent . She edits Alta Journal's California Book Club . Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review , Midnight Breakfast , Air/Light , The Normal School , Kweli Journal , and elsewhere. She has contributed essays and literary criticism to the Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , Alta Journal , Slate , San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Review of Books , and the New York Times...See more

Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning Love Songs for a Lost Continent . She edits Alta Journal's California Book Club . Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review , Midnight Breakfast , Air/Light , The Normal School , Kweli Journal , and elsewhere. She has contributed essays and literary criticism to the Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , Alta Journal , Slate , San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Review of Books , and the New York Times (Modern Love) , among other places. Her short stories and poems have been anthologized and in 2023, one of her short stories was performed as part of Symphony Space's Selected Shorts . She served on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle from 2021-2024. Felicelli grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her family in Mountain View, CA. See less