My name is Anna Krien, writer of the usual suspects – journalism, essays, fiction and poetry.
I also have a penchant for skeletons, particularly of the domestic kind, and am currently working on a friend to allow me to dig up her seven childhood rabbits. Born in Melbourne – I grew up in St Kilda and lived the normal Australian childhood, flattening 20 cent coins on tram tracks, eating icy-poles, making smoke bombs out of ping pong balls, bringing home stray cats, and struggled with an addiction to vanilla essence.
When I was eighteen, I won the Australian Press Council Secondary School Award, receiving a well-timed cheque that paid off my best friend’s dad’s car which I’d just crashed.
Since then, I’ve had work published in The Big Issue, The Monthly magazine, The Age newspaper, Best Australian Essays (Black Inc), Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, COLORS, Best Australian Stories (Black Inc), Frankie magazine, J-Mag, Harvest, Voracious: The Best New Australian Food Writing, The Lifted Brow, ABC Unleashed, and Dazed & Confused.
My poem ‘The Last Broadcasters’ won the 2008 Val Vallis Award. In 2010, Black Inc published my debut book titled ‘Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests’.
Other highlights include a scar on my knee where I jammed my teeth clad in metal braces whilst stuck out at sea in a rubber dinghy when I was thirteen, a nicely synched karaoke version of Prodigy’s Firestarter and a neurological cat scan which came back saying I had an unremarkable brain.
say hello annakrien@gmail.com