AnitaMathias

Anita Mathias was born in India, has a B.A. and M.A. in English from Somerville College, Oxford University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the Ohio State University.

Her essays have been published in The Washington Post, The London Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, America, The Christian Century, Religion Online, The
Southwest Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, New Letters, The Journal, ChristianGateway.com, WomanPrayers: Prayers by Women from throughout History and Around the World and two of HarperSanFrancisco's The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies.

Her non-fiction has won fellowships from The National Endowment for the  Arts; The Minnesota State Arts Board; The Jerome Foundation, The
Vermont Studio Center; The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the First Prize for the Best General Interest Article from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.
 

Anita now lives and writes in Oxford, England.