Anna Noyes is the author of the debut story collection, Goodnight, Beautiful Women (Grove Atlantic, 2016), which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Story Prize. She earned her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the 2013 Henfield Prize. Her fiction has appeared in Vice, A Public Space, and Guernica, among others. She has received the Lotos Foundation Prize, as well as fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Aspen Words, the James Merrill House, and Lighthouse Works.
At MacDowell, Noyes completed two short stories to be included in a collection-in-progress and planned the next draft of her debut novel, The Blue Maiden (Grove Atlantic, 2024).