Ananda Naima González is a writer, educator, and performer residing in Harlem, NY. She carries a BA and an MFA from Columbia University, in poetry and fiction respectively, and has taught at Gotham Writers Workshop. Her words have appeared in BOMB, McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, Catapult, and Lampblack. She's a 2022 finalist for Gulf Coast Journal’s Barthelme Prize for Short Prose and Indiana Review’s 1/2K Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2022 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Her mission is to honor the inherently sacred ritual of living. In addition to writing, she is also a professionally trained dancer and an accomplished choreographer and filmmaker.
