About the Author

Anne Korkeakivi is the author of the novels Shining Sea and An Unexpected Guest, both from Little, Brown. Her short fiction and nonfiction have been published by the Atlantic, TIME, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times (UK), Travel & Leisure, Ms., Architectural Digest, the Village Voice, the Yale Review, the Bellevue Literary Review, The Millions, Literary Hub, and many other periodicals in the US, the UK, and online. Her op-ed for USA Today on being a writer, being an expat, and universal healthcare was shared tens of thousands of times, and an essay about traveling in Tanzania with her family was chosen for Best Women’s Travel Writing, Vol. 10. She is a recipient of the Lois Kahn Wallace Writers Award and residency fellowships from Yaddo and Hawthornden.

Anne holds a BA in Classics from Bowdoin College and an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. A multi-generational New Yorker, she was born and raised in Manhattan, with many days and nights in western Massachusetts, and subsequently has lived also in Helsinki, Finland; Los Angeles; Washington, DC; Cambridge, MA; Maine; Brooklyn; Paris; and Strasbourg in eastern France, from where she worked for the French publisher Flammarion and traveled frequently to Paris. She currently splits her time between New York City and Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband is a human-rights lawyer with the UN. They have two daughters.

You can read an author q and a with Anne here.

Look for a few book suggestions from Anne here. They change regularly – always on a new theme and usually a mix of recent and older titles – so check back.

You can get in touch with Anne via the contact page and follow her on Twitter here and on Instagram here.