Anca Szilagyi is the author of Daughters of the Air, which Shelf Awareness called "a striking debut from a writer to watch." The Seattle Review of Books named Daughters of the Air a favorite novel of 2017, calling it "a creation of unearthly talents." Dreams Under Glass, her second novel, was called "a novel for our modern times" by Buzzfeed Books. Her short fiction appears in Gastronomica, Fairy Tale Review, Washington City Paper, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Orion Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Salon, The Rumpus, Jewish in Seattle, and on the Ploughshares blog. She was awarded grants and fellowships from 4Culture, Made at Hugo House, and Jack Straw and is the inaugural winner of the Artist Trust / LaSalle Storyteller Award. The Stranger hailed Anca as one of the "fresh new faces in Seattle fiction" and "a fantastic magical realist." Originally from Brooklyn, she has lived in Montreal, Seattle, and now Chicago.