Anita Gill is a South Asian essayist and fiction writer who currently serves as the Nonfiction Editor for Hypertext Magazine. 

She is an alum of Tin House, the Disquiet International Program, and the StoryBoard Conference. Her writing has received support from Anaphora Literary Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Fulbright Program. Her honors include notable listings in Best American Essays along with nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Kiese Laymon selected her essay, “Hair” as the winner of the Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction.

Anita’s essays, memoir, and satire have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, Kweli, and elsewhere. Her interviews and book reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicago Review of Books, and Hypertext Magazine.

Born and raised in the DC suburbs, she now lives in Chicago.

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