Anca L. Szilágyi

Anca L. Szilágyi is the author of Daughters of the Air, which Shelf Awareness called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” and Dreams Under Glass, which Buzzfeed Books called “a novel for our modern times.” She is working on a collection of food essays, some of which have appeared in Orion, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Fiddlehead. Originally from Brooklyn, she has lived in Montreal, Seattle, and now Chicago, where she teaches creative writing.

Lay of the Land

Cosmic Fruit

COLD STRAWBERRY SOUP STIMULATES HONEYMOONERS. So goes the thought in rural France. Medieval botanists believed that strawberries, being many-seeded, aided fertility. Both Venus and Freyja, Roman and Norse goddesses of love, Continue reading