About
Anya Groner is a journalist, fiction writer, and essayist, with work in Guernica, The New York Times, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Orion Magazine and The Atlantic. Her audio reporting and production is featured in WWNO/WRKF's Sea Change podcast as well as on Plot of Land, a podcast exploring land ownership and housing in the United States. Groner is a recipient of awards from the Cincinnati Review, Studio in the Woods, Loyola University, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Meridian Magazine, and the Louisiana Board of Regents and has received recognition from Best American Short Stories, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Science Writing, and Best American Essays. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Featured Work
Louisiana Chemical Plants are Thriving Off Slavery
“Oppression runs deep in southern Louisiana, but so does resistance. On January 8, 1811, a group of enslaved people marched from Woodlawn Plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish toward New Orleans. With each plantation they passed, more people joined, armed with cane knives, hoes, clubs, and guns, until more than 500 people flowed downriver, bent on founding a new Black nation. Within days, the rebellion was quashed. Dozens of Black men and women were killed by federal troops and plantation militia, and many more were sentenced to death, their severed heads mounted on spikes and displayed along a 60-mile stretch of river.”
Other Works
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"When the Place You Live Becomes Unlivable" (The Atlantic)
2021
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"A Sky without Blue" (Orion Magazine)
2021
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"Upon Impact" (Cincinnati Review)
2020
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"Between Worlds" (Orion Magazine)
2019
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"The Solitary Garden." (Orion Magazine)
2019
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"Twinless in Twinsburg" (Longreads)
2017
