Anna Vaught

Dr Anna Vaught is an English teacher, Creative Writing mentor and teacher and author of several books, including 2020’s novel Saving Lucia and short fiction collection, Famished; 2023 saw Saving Lucia published to national acclaim in Italy as Bang Bang Mussolini, memoir These Envoys of Beauty and the magical realism novel The Zebra and Lord Jones, a first teaching book, The Alchemy, plus the Curae anthology of short prose from the winning entrants to the prize she established in 2023 for writer-carers. July 2024 saw her first essay collection, To Melt the Stars and October 2025, The Elixir, a follow-up to The Alchemy. Shorter and multi-genre works are widely published in journals, magazines and anthologies and she has also written for the national press in the UK. She has been a columnist for Mslexia and The Bookseller, edits and proofreads and currently works as a tutor on the Ultimate Novel course for Jericho Writers and as a mentor for them. She was educated at the universities of Cambridge, Bristol and York St John, where she recently completed a PhD by Published Works on magical realism and trauma. She is represented by the literary agent Kesia Lupo of Maass Literary in New York and is currently working on a novella while her non-fiction proposal is out on submission. You can find her across social media as bookwormvaught!