Andy Anderegg is a fiction writer and co-founder of The Bent. Her fiction was recently shortlisted for the Dzanc Books’ Prize for Fiction. She was born in Texas, got her MFA at the University of Kansas, and lives in Los Angeles.

FICTION

Shortlisted, Dzanc Books’ New Fiction Prize
Finalist, The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press
Winner, One Story Tweet Your Own Story Contest
Semi-Finalist, American Short Fiction American Short(er) Fiction Contest
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest
Grant recipient, Vermont Studio Center

THE STACKS at A-B Projects So proud of the show I co-curated with gallery director Nicole Seisler, exploring one of clay’s earliest functions: the ability to hold writing. We paired visual artists with poets and fiction writers — each writer published a chapbook; and each visual artist made ceramic furniture in response. Featuring Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Katie Christian, Kenna Dworsky, Rebecca Evanhoe, Catherine Fairbanks, Lituo Huang, Stanton Hunter, Taylor Kibby, Alwyn O’Brien, Linda Ravenswood, Amy Santoferraro, Rhoads Stevens, Christopher Wawrinofsky. Special thanks to Los Angeles Print Shop for impeccably printing the show’s 300 chapbooks. • Two new short stories published in PLOT LINES at Nicole Siesler’s A-B Projects. Super excited to have my stories alongside work from Christine Han and Jackie Rines at the Bendix Building in DTLA • PLOT LINES reviewed by John Murphy, Curatorial Fellow at the University of San Diego’s University Galleries. “PLOT LINES, featuring three LA-based writers and artists, fulfills that mandate by offering a fresh and slyly subversive take on the age-old antagonism between art and craft. Seisler redirects stale criticisms of craft as domestic, feminine, and bound by tradition by both embracing and unsettling those expectations.” • New Pen-City stories published in VICE! This time it’s all memoir. Four pieces from Carlos, Jason, Jose, and AJ — students in the first-ever two-year college-level Creative Writing Certificate Program for men incarcerated at the Connally Unit Prison in Texas — on Christmas in prison, annoying people, chitchat, and nearly being killed. • VICE: Heartbreaking True Stories from Inside Texas Prisons “These are among the first of many stories to come from Connally’s Pen-City Writers, stories we wrote on hot Texas nights, under a moon we see only through cage wire.” Fiction from Kevin, Jason, and Jose.

CONSULTING

The Bent comes out every Tuesday Every secret code Emma and I figured out during our careers. Our email templates, our spreadsheets, our advice. It’s our skydiving manual for surviving the workplace. As managers of writers and editors, a lot of what we talk about is managing and being a better boss. But it all applies to any hard thing you’re doing. • The Wall Street Journal: Good News Liberal-Arts Majors: Your Peers Probably Won’t Outearn You Forever I bring tidings of hope in The WSJ. My dad (an engineer) bought 15 copies. I hope he is less stressed by my life choices! • You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Education The book spun from the WSJ article by George Anders on not giving up on what you actually want to do, and instead doing it very well. • The Washington Post: Yes, your kid will do something with that philosophy degree after all More hope for people who like hope! • The New York Times: Groupon’s Fate Hinges on Words Coupons are just coupons until they are art. • The Outline: When Groupon Ruled Chicago “For a little while, at least, it was a really special place to be.”