Annie Sloniker is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has also been a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine and spent four summers working in Yellowstone National Park. She has been the recipient of residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; her work has been published in A Public Space and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
At MacDowell, she worked on a novel set during the farm crisis in 1980s Nebraska and a short story set on Cape Cod.