
Anne Kaier's poetry collection, How Can I Say It Was Not Enough?, won the Propel Poetry Award. It’s out from Nine Mile Press (distributed by Syracuse University Press). Poems have appeared in several anthologies including the 2012 ALA Notable Book Beauty is a Verb: An Anthology of Poetry, Poetics, and Disability. Kaier’s memoir, They Said I Couldn’t Have a Love Life, was a Finalist for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ 2024 Sue William Silverman Prize. Her essays have appeared widely in venues such as The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, 1966journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the anthology About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of The New York Times for which she appeared on NPR’s Radio Times. “Maple Lane” was mentioned on the list of notables in an edition of Best American Essays. Excerpts from her memoir manuscript, They Said I Couldn’t Have a Love Life, have been published in The Woven Tale Press and Persimmon Review. She is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and has served on a Fulbright screening committee for creative writers. She has an MA from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.