SELECTED WORK
A Field Guide to the Inspirational People You Meet After Having a Disabled Child
McSweeney’s, 2026
Elsewhere
Winner of the 2025 Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story by a New Author
Creation Magazine, 2025
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
McSweeney’s, 2025
McSweeney’s 11th most-read article of 2025
ADDITIONAL PUBLISHED WORK
Hobart, 2025
Fractured Lit, 2025
The Letter Review, 2025 — Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction
Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Issue 49, 2024
WOW! Women on Writing, 2024
Mensa Bulletin, 2023
Flash Fiction Magazine, 2023
Children’s book, 2016
ABOUT
Anaïs Godard is a Franco-American speculative fiction writer, the 2025 Mike Resnick Memorial Award winner for her short story Elsewhere. Her open letter published in McSweeney’s ranked among the magazine’s most-read pieces of 2025. She is also a Best of the Net nominee for her essay How to Cremate Your Pet Squirrel, which won the Letter Review Prize. Her work appears in McSweeney’s, Fractured Lit, Hobart, Creation Magazine, and elsewhere.
“Trained in linguistics and semiotics, she gravitates toward layered storytelling shaped by questions of power, memory, and meaning-making.”
Trained at La Sorbonne, she explores the intersections of language and agency through a feminist lens. She is a Tin House Workshop alumna and an Idyllwild Arts Fiction Fellow, and contributes book reviews and interviews to CALYX Press. Her activism has been featured in exhibitions such as WE RISE LA and the Mothership Festival.
A former television producer, she co-founded @nastywomenLA to amplify women’s voices in the arts. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she writes and wanders libraries with her children.
RECOGNITION
Winner — Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story
2025
Winner — Letter Review Prize
2025
Finalist — Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest
2026
Nominee — Best of the Net
2025
McSweeney’s — 11th most-read article
2025
Tin House Workshop alumna
2025
Fiction Fellow — Idyllwild Arts Writers Week
2024
Additional Distinctions
Fiction Fellow — Women Who Submit Workshop, 2024
Recipient — Ashaki M. Jackson No Barriers Grant, 2024
Third Place — WOW! Women on Writing Summer 2023 Flash Fiction Contest, for “Pumpkin”
Finalist — Etched Onyx Magazine Prose Contest, for “Beyond the Gloss,” 2024
Finalist — Voyage YA Novel Excerpt Contest, for “The Heart of Evrim,” 2023
Finalist — Voyage YA Short Story Contest, for “The Grace,” 2023
PRESS & CONVERSATIONS
Interview, 2025
Interview, 2025
Interview, 2024
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REPRESENTATION
Represented by Laurie McLean at Fuse Literary
For inquiries regarding speaking engagements, interviews, or rights, please reach out via professional channels.
© 2026 Anaïs Godard. All errors, omissions, and rebellions are my own.