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How to pronounce Ananda Lima: uh-NAHN-duh LEE-muh
Ananda Lima is a poet, translator, and fiction writer born in Brasília, Brazil, now living in Chicago, IL. She's the author of the poetry collection Mother/land, winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Common, Witness, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. Craft: Stories I wrote for the Devil is her fiction debut.
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Dear Reader,
My name is Ananda, and I am the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil. As I write this, I am thinking of you. You may have caught the bus, or the subway, or driven to work today. Maybe it was a cloudy day, but you had this moment, where there was a gap in the clouds, and the sun reached you. You may have closed your eyes for just one second and enjoyed the orange light behind your eyelids, the warmth on your skin. Maybe it is not the kind of thing you feel you need to tell people. But I am thinking of these very things as I write this: your life outside and your interior life. Our inner selves together across space and time.
Between us, Craft is a little about that. About the beautiful and strange magic that is writing and literature. About the outer world (crushing, terrifying, and beautiful) and the inner world, including small moments we may share only with ourselves. About meaningful connection.
Yes, it is also about a writer, who sleeps with the Devil at a Halloween party, and meets him again and again throughout her life as she writes the same stories you will ¬ nd in the book. It is about ghosts of people who are not dead yet, and people dispensed from vending machines, and excursions through hell,...
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