I’m a writer from Ojai, CA with short fiction in The Best American Short Stories 2020, Fourteen Hills, The Masters Review, CutBank, Khôra, Cimarron Review, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.
I’m a writer from Ojai, CA with short stories in The Best American Short Stories 2020, The Masters Review, Fourteen Hills, CutBank, Khôra, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.
WRITING
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
FICTION
“Phillip Whitney,” Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading
Online – Issue 745
“Ocean Beach,” Cimarron Review
Print – Issues 223 & 224
“Summer Song,” Khôra
Online series
Part I – Issue 22
Part II – Issue 23
Part III – Issue 24
Part IV – Issue 25
“The Chase,” CutBank
Print – Issue 94
“Octopus VII,” The Best American Short Stories 2020
edited by Curtis Sittenfeld
Print, eBook, audiobook
“Octopus VII,” Fourteen Hills
Print – Vol. 25
“Octopus VII,” LitHub Radio’s Storybound podcast
Audio (abridged)
“Ghost Print,” The Masters Review
selected by Rebecca Makkai
Print – Anthology Volume VII
NONFICTION
“A Person Who Writes,” The Masters Review
Print – Anthology Volume X
BIO + CONTACT
BIO
Anna Reeser’s short fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2020 and is published in journals including Cimarron Review, Fourteen Hills, The Masters Review, Khôra, CutBank, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. She is an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshops, the Tin House Winter Workshop, and the One Story Writing Circle.
Anna holds a BA from UC Berkeley in English Literature and Art Practice, and her writing draws from her background in visual art. She works as a freelance fiction editor and as a strategic copywriter. After living throughout California and the Pacific Northwest, she now lives north of Los Angeles in her hometown of Ojai with her husband and kids.
She is currently revising a novel and has completed a collection of short stories exploring the complex lives of people striving to make art.
CONTACT
Literary Agents: Elizabeth Pratt & Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary
EDITORIAL SERVICES
I help writers identify their story’s strengths and find actionable revision strategies to refine voice, pacing, character development, and narrative structure. I read closely, give thoughtful big-picture feedback and sentence-level insights, and provide in-depth discussions to understand your goals and bring your manuscript into its most impactful form.