WRITING — ANRI WHEELER

ESSAYS

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My Mother Was Also a First Mermaid of Color

Lit Hub
June 6, 2023

Running Home

boston.com
April 14, 2023

'My girls are part of that hope': Why I talk to my daughters about hard things

WBUR Cognoscenti
July 14, 2022

There's Nothing New About Normal

Pangyrus
June 28, 2022

I felt kinship with the women killed in Atlanta. And distance

WBUR Cognoscenti
March 25, 2022

Turning Red & What It Means To “See Yourself” In A Movie

Romper
March 18, 2022

Watching My Neighbor Totoro on the Eve of My Daughters’ Omicron-Surge Return to School

Lit Hub
January 18, 2022

For one night, music eased the loss of the last two years

WBUR Cognoscenti
December 16, 2021

Food and Covid-19: Making the Casserole

Entropy
August 19, 2021

The 'Simultaneity' Of Naomi Osaka

WBUR Cognoscenti
July 28, 2021

What Gets Lost If I Don't Pass On My Mother's Language To My Children?

Romper
May 27, 2021

After Birthing Three Babies and One Manuscript: 20 Ways I Am a Writer Who is Also a Mother

Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog
May 7, 2021

My Doctor Said I Needed a C-Section for My Breech Baby: A Second Opinion Got Me the Birth I Wanted

Parents
March 19, 2021

Spare Me Your Outrage, Your Shock. This Is America

WBUR Cognoscenti
January 8, 2021

Normal People and the Intimate Problem of Patriarchy

Pangyrus
September 20, 2020

In The Japanese Snow Queen, I See My Mother, My Daughters And The Future

WBUR Cognoscenti
December 19, 2019

Where Are You Really From?

Embracing Equity blog
April 1, 2019

BOOK REVIEWS

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The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon (Review & Interview)

Hippocampus
October 8, 2023

The In-Betweens by Davon Loeb

Hippocampus
May 16, 2023

Craft and Conscience: How To Write About Social Issues by Kavita Das

Hippocampus
January 17, 2023

Heir to the Crescent Moon by Sufiya Abdur-Rahman

Hippocampus
July 8, 2022

Thrity Umrigar on ‘Honor’ and dishonor

The Boston Globe
December 30, 2021

Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir by Allison Hong Merrill

Hippocampus
October 8, 2021

Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali

Hippocampus
May 10, 2021

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Hippocampus
December 2, 2020

Pondering death and intimacy in ‘What Are You Going Through’

The Boston Globe
September 10, 2020

From the Lake House by Kristen Rademacher

Hippocampus
August 4, 2020

Looking back at Japanese-Americans and Jane Austen in ‘Sansei and Sensibility’

The Boston Globe
April 30, 2020

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Hippocampus
April 4, 2020

FLASH

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Micro Non-Fiction Tournament #6: When I Learned I Was Different

Micro Non-Fiction Tournament #6: When I Learned I Was Different

The Nasiona
May 19, 2021

200-word Essay about life during COVID-19

200-word Essay about life during COVID-19

The Boston Globe
(Selected by the Boston Book Festival)
July 9, 2020

Biracial

100 Word Stories

MEMOIR EXCERPTS

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Cana

The Seventh Wave
March 2, 2020

One Wednesday listening to Con Los Años Que Me Quedan

Memoir Mixtapes
December 2019