Anna Purves is a writer and artist.
She teaches writing in the Macaulay Honors and Lehman Scholars programs at Lehman College/CUNY.
Recent Poems Published
"Then I Was Refugee", "Once Upon a Time, During the Years of Rage," "Spaces" in Strands: LitSphere June 2020
"Even Steven" in Pure Slush
"Gemstones: A Tanka Quintet" in Voices of the Valley
Awards
Team Emmy award for Best of the Bronx PSA video series: as Script writer
Poetry Prize from Bronx Council on the Arts for Before and After
Fiction Prize from Bronx Council on the Arts for Elena and the Minotaur
