Anne Raeff grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, and graduated from Barnard College. She has been a teacher for over fifteen years and has taught history, government, Spanish, English as a second language, and creative writing (at the University of New Mexico). She currently teaches in East Palo Alto and lives with her partner of seventeen years in San Francisco. She speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and taught in Malaysia and Spain. She has also worked as a bartender and and co-owned an Asian furniture store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named after Jane Bowles’ novel Two Serious Ladies. Her first novel, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, was published by MacAdam/Cage in 2002 and released in Italian by Edizioni Spartaco in 2006. Her short stories have appeared in Side Show, Oasis, and an excerpt from “Winter Kept Us Warm” appeared as a short story in The New England Review. In December 2009, she finished her second novel, Winter Kept Us Warm, while at the Fundación Valparaíso residency in Spain. She is currently working on a third book.
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