Anna Keesey is an American author from Portland, Oregon. She is a graduate of Stanford University and of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her novel, Little Century, earned the highest marks by readers and literary critics at the New York Times book review, the Washington Post, O Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Millions, and The Rumpus.
Her fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews have also appeared in journals and newspapers such as Grand Street, The Best American Short Stories, The Chicago Tribune, and more. She is the recipient of awards, prizes, and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, and Yaddo. Keesey currently teaches English and creative writing at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.