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Anne Valente

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Anne Valente is the author of two novels, The Desert Sky Before Us (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2019) and Our Hearts Will Burn US Down (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016), as well as the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names (Dzanc Books, 2014). She is also the author of the fiction chapbook, An Elegy for Mathematics (Bull City Press, 2017). Her fiction appears in One Story, American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review and The Chicago Tribune, and her essays appear in The Believer and The Washington Post. Originally from St. Louis, she teaches creative writing and literature at Hamilton College.

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Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down

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By Light We Knew Our Names

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The Desert Sky Before Us

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An Elegy for Mathematics

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Keyhole 8

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“We met among tall pines, separate blood, divided by arms and hands and hearts and lungs that all held the same wounds—mine”
Anne Valente, By Light We Knew Our Names

“I knew my father had told her this, his bevy of trivia, little details she let slide in passing but with fixed frequency now, letting him breathe the air through her.”
Anne Valente, By Light We Knew Our Names

“I waited for dawn beneath the blaze, streaks so palette luminous I wanted someone next to me to watch a rage of electricity, magnetic storm, made beautiful only by collision, trapped, shuttling toward earth just to break apart.”
Anne Valente, By Light We Knew Our Names

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