Author Interview - Anya Liftig

Author and performance artist, Anya Liftig joins Emily in the FCB studio to discuss her memoir, Holler Rat.-Anya Liftig is an author and performance artist who has had her creative work exhibited at Tate Modern and MoMA, and she has curated events at The Kitchen, the Center for Performance Research, and the Queens Museum.Anya's non-fiction essays have been featured in Brain, Teen, BioStories, Hippocampus, Kindred and The Chattahoochee Review (Lamar York Prize Winner) as well as nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Non-Fiction. She is a 2021 Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Award and a performance commission from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Liftig has received grant and residency support from MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hambidge Center for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The New Museum, Bronx Museum of Art, Flux Projects Atlanta, University of Antioquia and Casa Tres Patios-Medellin, Colombia. Her memoir, Holler Rat (bookshop.org)(libro.fm) is her first book.-For a video version of this author interview, check out the Friendly City Books Youtube channel!-Thank you for supporting Friendly City Books by listening to our podcast. Shop with us in store and online at friendlycitybooks.com/shop or through bookshop.org and libro.fm.-Find us on social media -Facebook: facebook.com/friendlycitybooksInstagram: @friendlycitybooksTiktok: @friendlycitybooksYoutube: @friendlycitybooks2586-Host: Emily LinerGuest Author: Anya LiftigMusic: Rear Projection by Hartle RoadProduction Assistance: Neon Newt Media LLCFriendly City Books Inc.Friendlycitybooks.com