Anna Metcalfe's short stories have been published in Lighthouse Journal,ÌýTender,ÌýThe Best of British Short Stories,ÌýThe Dublin Review, The Short Anthology ²¹²Ô»åÌýThe Lonely Crowd among other places. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her first book, a collection of short stories, Blind Water Pass, was published by John Murray in May 2016. Her first novel,ÌýChrysalis, is published by Granta in the UK in 2023. Prior to joining the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, she taught literature, creative writing and critical theory at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.