Anna Badkhen’s new essay collection, To See Beyond, is forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in April 2026. She is the author of seven other published books, most recently Bright Unbearable Reality, longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and for the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.
Badkhen’s awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barry Lopez Visiting Writer in Ethics and Community Fellowship, and the Joel R. Seldin Award from Psychologists for Social Responsibility for writing about civilians in war zones.
A former war correspondent, Badkhen has nonfiction in New York Review of Books, Granta, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Emergence, Orion, Adi, and the New York Times, and fiction in AGNI, The Common, Conjunctions, Scalawag, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Zyzzyva.
Badkhen grew up in the Soviet Union and is a US citizen. She is an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
