About

Anna Journey was born in Arlington, Virginia, on November 11, 1980. She spent her early childhood in South Asia, living for five years in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and two years in New Delhi, India. In 1988, she returned with her family to Northern Virginia, where she grew up in Fairfax, a suburb of Washington, DC. As an undergraduate at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Journey majored in art education, specializing in studio pottery, before earning her M.F.A. in creative writing from VCU. She holds a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. Since 2014, she’s taught in the English department and the Ph.D. program in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California, where she’s an associate professor.

In addition to Wolf Cut: New & Selected Poems, forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in the fall of 2026, Journey is the author of the poetry collections The Judas Ear, The Atheist Wore Goat Silk, and Vulgar Remedies, all from LSU Press, and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series and published by the University of Georgia Press. She’s also published the essay collection, An Arrangement of Skin, with Counterpoint Press. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Journey has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts.