Anne Calcagno
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Anne Calcagno is a fiction writer and a travel journalist. Her fiction includes the short story collection Pray For Yourself, and the novel Love Like a Dog, with a second novel What I Would Do for You currently being marketed. Her fiction award credits include the James D. Phelan Literary Award, an NEA Fellowship, two Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowships, and the 1st place award for a first novel from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Her travel writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, New City, Chicago Sun-Times, Air Kenya’s inflight magazine Ndege News, and various travel anthologies. Calcagno is also the primary editor for Travelers Tales: Italy, which won Foreword's Silver Medal for Best Travel Book of the Year. She teaches in the MFAW/BFAW at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
She wishes to share that she became a lifelong lover of pit bulls by chance, accompanying her teenaged daughter so she could volunteer at an animal shelter. Their plight became an obsession that inspired the novel. Over 300 copies of Love Like a Dog have been donated to 45 animal shelters across the country for use in fundraising. You can read about her self-publishing journey in the blog on her website.
Website: https://annecalcagno.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anne.calcagno/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annecalcagno/
Winning Entry: Love Like a Dog
Contest Won: North Street Book Prize 2023, Honorable Mention
