Anca L. Szilágyi is the author of Daughters of the Air, which Shelf Awareness called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” and Dreams Under Glass, which Buzzfeed Books called “a novel for our modern times.” She is working on a collection of food essays, some of which have appeared in Orion, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Fiddlehead. Originally from Brooklyn, she has lived in Montreal, Seattle, and now Chicago, where she teaches creative writing.
Anca L. Szilágyi
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All in the Pumpkins
“We put into a small Port, called the Boohoole, which we afterwards named the Pumpkin-Bay, because of its fertility in bearing of Pumpkins.” —J. Quarles, The Tyranny of the Dutch Against Continue reading
Lay of the Land
A Dill in Every Soup
I love to look at dill. I love to handle it, chop it. It’s an elegant shape. Its featheriness is touchable; I brush it on my cheeks when no one is looking. Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Cosmic Fruit
COLD STRAWBERRY SOUP STIMULATES HONEYMOONERS. So goes the thought in rural France. Medieval botanists believed that strawberries, being many-seeded, aided fertility. Both Venus and Freyja, Roman and Norse goddesses of love, Continue reading