Anna Rollins | Author. Writing Teacher. Editor.

I’m Anna Rollins, author of Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl (out December 9, 2025 from Eerdmans).

My groundbreaking debut memoir examines the rhyming scripts of diet culture and evangelical purity culture, both of which direct women to fear their own bodies and appetites.

I’m a lifelong Appalachian, and I live with my husband in West Virginia where we’re raising our children.

I’m an award-winning instructor who taught English in higher education for nearly 15 years. I am a 2025 West Virginia Creative Network Literary Arts fellow.

My writing has appeared in outlets like The New York Times, Slate, Electric Literature, Salon, Joyland, and more. I’ve also written a number of scholarly articles about composition and writing center studies.

About Anna Rollins

Anna Rollins’s memoir, FAMISHED: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl (out 12.9.25 from Eerdmans — order today!), examines the rhyming scripts of evangelical purity culture and diet culture.  Learn more about who FAMISHED was written for over on her Substack.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature, Joyland, Shondaland, NBCNews, HuffPost, and Newsweek, among other outlets. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. An award-winning writing instructor, she taught English in higher education for almost fifteen years. She is a 2025 West Virginia Creative Network Literary Arts Fellow.

Her newsletter, On writing and publishing with Anna Rollins, discusses craft, process, and strategy for creative writers hoping to get their work out into the world. Subscribe for free and receive the Perfect Pitch template as a free download in your Welcome email.

Want to feature Anna’s work? Here’s a current headshot, and here’s a press kit for FAMISHED. She’s also available for commissions.