Anne Valente

{{short description|American writer}}

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| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri

| occupation = Short-story writer, essayist, novelist

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Washington University in St. Louis (BA)

University of Illinois (MS)

Bowling Green State University (MFA)

University of Cincinnati (PhD)

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Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (2016)

By Light We Knew Our Names (2014)

An Elegy for Mathematics (2013)

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The Best Small Fictions (2017)

Copper Nickel Prize (2012)

Dzanc Short Story Prize (2011)

Notable Story, Best American Non-Required Reading (2011)

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Anne Valente is an American writer. Her debut short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names, won the Dzanc Books Short Story Prize and was released in September 2014. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook, An Elegy for Mathematics. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, The Kenyon Review and others. In 2014, She was the Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her essays have been published in The Believer, Electric Literature and The Washington Post.

In 2016, Valente's debut novel, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins.{{Cite web|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062429117/our-hearts-will-burn-us-down/|title = Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down}} Her second novel, The Desert Sky Before Us, was published by HarperCollins in 2019.

Valente is currently represented by Emma Patterson at [https://brandthochman.com/clients Brandt & Hochman]

She has taught creative writing and creative non-fiction at Bowling Green State University, McNeese State University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Utah, University of Cincinnati, and Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Valente is currently an [https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/Anne-Valente associate professor] in the department of Literature and Creative Writing at [https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/Anne-Valente Hamilton College].