Annie Liontas
Assistant Professor of English
Annie Liontas is the genderqueer author of the crip-queer memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA’s 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Their debut novel, Let Me Explain You, was selected as New York Times Editors Choice in 2015. They co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, and their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Book, Electric Literature, BOMB, Lithub, The Believer, American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. A graduate of Syracuse University’s MFA program, Annie is an Associate Professor of writing at George Washington University and serves as faculty at the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. Annie has volunteered as a mentor for Pen City’s incarcerated writers and helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system in Washington, DC. They co-host the literary podcast LitFriends and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit.
Annie Liontas' debut novel, Let Me Explain You (Scribner), was featured in The New York Times Book Review as Editor's Choice and was selected by the ABA as an Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next title. She is the co-editor of the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors. She served as Visiting Writer at UC Davis, University of Massachusetts, and Bryn Mawr College before joining George Washington University. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Gay Magazine, BOMB, Guernica, Ninth Letter and Lit.