Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning Love Songs for a Lost Continent. She edits Alta Journal's California Book Club. Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Midnight Breakfast, Air/Light, The Normal School, Kweli Journal, and elsewhere. She has contributed essays and literary criticism to the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Alta Journal, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times (Modern Love), among other places. Her short stories and poems have been anthologized and in 2023, one of her short stories was performed as part of Symphony Space's Selected Shorts. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle from 2021-2024. Felicelli grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her family in Mountain View, CA.