Anne Landsman is an award-winning novelist, born in Worcester, South Africa. She holds a B.A. from the University of Cape Town and an M.F.A. in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University. Her novels include The Devil's Chimney and The Rowing Lesson. The first novel developed from one of her short stories published in the American Poetry Review, while the second is more autobiographical, telling the story of a Jewish South African woman. These novels have been published in the United Kingdom, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and the United States,
Landsman has also contributed essays to the anthologies Touch, An Uncertain Inheritance and The Honeymoon’s Over, and has written for numerous publications including The Washington Post, The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Guardian, and The Telegraph. She has taught/lectured at Brooklyn College, The New School for Social Research in New York, University of Wyoming –Laramie, and Columbia University. Today, she is on the Board of Trustees at The Writers Room in New York City, where she lives with her husband, architect James Wagman, and children.
