Anne de Marcken

Anne de Marcken is a time-based artist working in literary fiction, film and video, digital photography, and interactive code. Her credits include short stories, poetry, screenplays, short and feature-length films and videos, and interactive web environments. Her writing has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and in such publications as Best New American Voices, Glimmer Train, Southing Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, The Writer's Chronicle, Writers Ask, and in the anthology The Way We Knew It. She has been awarded the Mary C. Mohr Short Fiction Award, the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, the Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction, and was one of ten writers selected by guest judge Yiyun Li in the 2009 Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest. She has received grant and fellowship support for her writing from the Jentel Foundation, Centrum, the Hafer Family Foundation, and Artist Trust. Her award-winning film and video work has been widely distributed in commercial theaters, around the world in festivals, on the web, and on home video. De Marcken is actively engaged in critical discussion about the interplay of new media and literature, and has served as moderator and panelist at international conferences such as AWP and the University of Iowa's NonfictionNow, and as Fiction Editor for Hunger Mountain. Co-founder and Creative Director of the digital media studio Wovie, Inc. for ten years, de Marcken now serves in an advisory capacity on large projects. She is co-producing Wovie's latest feature-length narrative, In the Way of Intimacy, as well as the company's first feature-length documentary, FAIR. De Marcken earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in Experimental Media from The Evergreen State College.