Annie Liontas

Annie Liontas is the author of the novel Let Me Explain You and the coeditor of A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors . Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review , NPR, Gay Magazine , Electric Literature , BOMB , The Believer , Guernica , McSweeney's , and other publications. A graduate of Syracuse University's MFA program, she is a professor of writing at George Washington University. Annie has served as a mentor for Pen City's incarcerated writers and helped secure a...See more

Annie Liontas is the author of the novel Let Me Explain You and the coeditor of A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors . Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review , NPR, Gay Magazine , Electric Literature , BOMB , The Believer , Guernica , McSweeney's , and other publications. A graduate of Syracuse University's MFA program, she is a professor of writing at George Washington University. Annie has served as a mentor for Pen City's incarcerated writers and helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. She lives in Philadelphia. See less