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, the Yale Review, the Missouri Review, the Bellevue Literary Review, Consequence, TIME, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, Ms., AD, Travel & Leisure, Literary Hub, and many other periodicals in the US, the UK, Finland, and online. Her op-ed for USA Today on universal healthcare and being an expat and writer 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 and AudioFile awards and fellowships from Yaddo, Hawthornden, Wildacres, and Norton Island.

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 on her father’s side and descended from Willa Cather-style Nebraskans on her mother’s, she was born and raised in Manhattan, with many hours in western Massachusetts, and subsequently has lived also in Helsinki, Los Angeles, Paris, Washington (DC), Cambridge, coastal Maine, Brooklyn, and Strasbourg in eastern France from where she worked for the French publisher Flammarion. 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.