Anna Badkhen is a former war correspondent and the author of To See Beyondand seven other books. Her 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. Badkhen’s 2022 book Bright Unbearable Realitywas longlisted for the National Book Award and the Jan Michalski International Prize for Literature, and was a finalist for the Tiziano Terzani International Literary Prize.
Badkhen has nonfiction in New York Review of Books, Granta, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Emergence, Orion, Adi, Virginia Quarterly Review, 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. Her first novel, The Concert, will be published in 2028.
