Anne Korkeakivi

Anne Korkeakivi is the author of the novels An Unexpected Guest and Shining Sea. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications in the United States and Britain, and she is a Hawthornden Fellow. Born and raised in New York City, she has lived in France and Finland, and currently resides in Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband is a human-rights lawyer with the United Nations. They have two daughters.

When I’m Writing Fiction, I Cannot Read It

Anne Korkeakivi Investigates the Reading Habits of Working Novelists

September 28, 2017 By Anne Korkeakivi

We’re All Peripheral: On the Uncertainty of Literary Community

Anne Korkeakivi on Writing as a Roving Expatriate

August 8, 2016 By Anne Korkeakivi

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