Anri Wheeler
Cognoscenti contributor
Anri Wheeler teaches writing at the Massachusetts College of Art of Design and is the nonfiction editor at Pangyrus magazine. She is an alumna of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, Tin House, VONA and Ragdale. Her essays and reviews have appeared in LitHub, The Boston Globe, and Hippocampus among others.
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After a shooting, the weight of silence
What hit me hard as I went to bed Monday night is how few people I heard from that day, writes Anri Wheeler, a Cambridge resident. Perhaps the news of...
'My girls are part of that hope': Why I talk to my daughters about hard things
Hard conversations, like advocacy, must be ongoing, writes Anri Wheeler.
I felt kinship with the women killed in Atlanta. And distance
As the list of Asians being assaulted and murdered grows, there is only so much grainy security camera footage I can take in, writes Anri Wheeler, reflecting on a year...
For one night, music eased the loss of the last two years
An evening watching Rhiannon Giddens perform reminded Anri Wheeler just how powerful it feels to be with other people, especially when making and experiencing art.
The 'Simultaneity' Of Naomi Osaka
Watching Naomi Osaka reinforced for me that she will not be hammered down, writes Anri Wheeler. She speaks out when she wants to, and stays silent when it is an...
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Spare Me Your Outrage, Your Shock. This Is America
Our inability to acknowledge the white supremacist truth of our history fuels the very fire we are furiously claiming no part in having helped set, writes Anri Wheeler.
In The Japanese Snow Queen, I See My Mother, My Daughters And The Future
Confronting ballet's diversity gap, one snow queen at a time.