About Me
Annilee Newton is a writer and composition professor at Austin Community College. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction Creative Writing from Lesley University. Selections from her thesis project Cupboard Sundries have appeared in the anthology Family Stories from the Attic published by Hidden Timber Press, The Dirty Spoon, the Sierra Nevada Review, and PenDust Radio podcast. Lately, she’s been working on Thessalonika, a novel about a college student who assumes the identity of her male classmate so she can participate on an archeological dig in 1950 Greece.
Some things I’ve done
- volunteered as a junior firefighter
- ridden a 1985 Schwinn World Road Bike 150+ miles between Austin and Houston for the MS150
- come to terms with my own mortality by jumping out of a plane strapped to a stranger’s back
- sailed on the crew of the Petite Helene out of Kemah
- social media managed Asymptote, a journal featuring literature in translation
- blown out three tires on a rental car in the Hebrides
- scuba dived a bleached coral graveyard off the coast of Isla Mujeres
- hiked up Mount Emory in Big Bend National Park
- worked the night shift at Waffle House
- randomly earned my yoga teacher certification, then never taught yoga
- fallen asleep by lake of swans in Gotland trying to ride a rental bike to Faro
- gotten lost on the literal (and probably metaphorical) Hill of Life
- written three different manuscripts in three different genres
Languages I’ve studied
(In descending order from most to least time invested)
- English (native speaker + 2 degrees)
- French (degree, B1 level)
- American Sign Language (GRODA, i.e., Grandchild Of A Deaf Adult)
- Spanish
- Italian
- Modern Greek
Places I’ve Lived
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Nesbit, Mississippi
- Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Old Orléans, Loire Valley, France
- Houston, Texas
- Austin, Texas
Communities
- Novel in Progress: Austin-based critique group
- Cambridge Common Writers: Lesley University Writing Alumni Group
Nonwriting, nonteaching stuff I’ve made recently
Peanut Puppy Gallery
Meet Birdie (blonde) and Bracken (brown), the canine imps who bring joy to my life
| Other Birdies of the Animal Kingdom | Other Brackens of the Animal Kingdom |
| otter | bat |
| mud pig | deer |
| squirrel | fox |
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