Anna Barr

Anna Barr is writer living in Houston, Texas. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review and was long-listed for the Adroit Journal's 2026 Anthony Veasana So Scholar Prize in Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program and a BA in Spanish & International Political Economy from the University of Michigan. She has been an Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize winner, curator of Convergence Research: a platform for interdisciplinary experimentation at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, an assistant fiction editor for Gulf Coast Journal and cohost of the Poison Pen reading series. She is now the Development Manager at Inprint, a literary arts organization serving readers and writers in Houston.

Anna is currently seeking representation for her first book Lexie in Exile. She's working on a second novel.