Anya Silver

Anya Silver was the author of the poetry collections Second Bloom (2017), From Nothing (2016), I Watched You Disappear (2014), and The Ninety-Third Name of God (2010). Her book of literary criticism, Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, was published in 2006. She earned a BA from Haverford College and a PhD in Literature from Emory University. She was named Georgia Author of the Year for Poetry in 2015 and was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2018. She taught at Mercer University and lived in Georgia until her death in 2018.