The Stone of Language

Anya is currently at work on History Artist, a novel-in-progress, which explores the aftermath of holocausts in various communities through an ensemble of connected characters, and centering in a young Cambodian and African American woman, born the moment the US bombing of Cambodia begins. Also in-progress, Matadors at the Crossing, a poetry collection. Anya's teaching on writing craft goes beyond conventions with creatively expansive approaches that reflect multiple experiences, histories, aesthetics, uses of language, and approaches to story. Her essay on out-of-category identities and their relationship to the inadequate instruction to "write from a sense of place" was published in How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse. She has begun work on volumes that collect her radical creative writing pedagogy and workshop materials. The first volume from the Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World Workshop Series, will be based on Body Stories, Body Song, and the Elements of Story Craft. This focuses on bringing forward authentic and rooted craft through an examination of the relationship between the body and all the elements of story, including the very structures of the stories we write. Working with many kinds of bodies, such as the captive, the liberated, the traumatized, the adorned, the dislodged and diasporic, the body in resistance, opens and shifts the writer's relationship to their craft. Anya has also worked curating Cuban film festivals in Minneapolis and elsewhere; and has organized a number of arts and history-focused multicultural journeys to Cuba, for writers, artists, filmmakers, educators, and other travelers. A national and international writer's consultant, Anya has taught creative writing workshops privately; as well as for schools including New York University, Hamline University, Sarah Lawrence's Writing Institute, the Transformative Language Arts Network-a Goddard partner, the University of Minnesota's Split Rock arts program, the University of New Mexico's Honors Program, and Taos summer writing program; and for writers' organizations and conferences including The Loft, Intermedia Arts, the International Women's Writing Guild, the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, and SouthWest Writers. People in 60 countries have taken her online creative writing courses through Writers.com, TLAN, Udemy.com, and privately.Her forthcoming Patreon.org page will make her workshops and writings more widely available; courses, webinars, and critique groups will be gathered at Teachable.com.For more information, please visit Anya's website, The Disobedient Writer, here: https: //thedisobedientwriter.com/