Anya Reeve is a published writer who was recently shortlisted for the Philip Hoare Prize for Non-Fiction, 2025. At Swedenborg House, where she works, she has lately acted as Assistant Curator of the exhibition Elective Affinities (2025-2026) and the two-phase exhibition Swedenborg's Lusthus: On Memory and Place | Swedenborg's Lusthus: Into the Garden (2024), accompanied by a book entitled Swedenborg's Lusthus (2024) with a foreword by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Deborah Levy. She was also latterly the exhibition assistant for Hereafter by Simon Moretti (2025). In total, she has thus far worked on nine exhibitions.

Prior to getting a job, Anya completed a BA in English Language and Literature and an MSt in Literature 1900-Present at the University of Oxford. Her latest creative writing, from this year, can be found in chapbook journal The Hempen Jig (Tangerine Press, 2026); Tears in the Fence, Issue 83; as a reprint in Triple Series, No. 27 (Ravenna Press, 2026); and in the online journal The Lake. Other work exists in The Rumen; Blumenhaus Magazine’s Journal; Snow lit rev; Ink Sweat & Tears; pamphlets for Midsummer Folk and Twilight Classical 2025 at the Chelsea Physic Garden, and in Gifts Returned by the River, edited by Iain Sinclair (Swedenborg House Editions, 2025). Further work is forthcoming in the anthology Decomposition (in/kiostro: New School of the Anthropocene, 2026), edited by Victor Rees and Damian Walsh; and in LINSEED Journal. She has had essays and reviews published in The Modernist Review, the Oxonian Review and the Swedenborg Review.

Anya is working on her debut novel.
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