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 eight 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 creative writing can be found in Tears in the Fence; 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 the Iain Sinclair-edited anthology (with keynote texts by Sinclair) Gifts Returned by the River (Swedenborg House Editions, 2025). Further work is forthcoming in the chapbook journal The Hempen Jig (Tangerine Press, 2026) edited by Michael Curran, the anthology Decomposition (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 0.05 and 0.06. Anya is working on her debut novel.

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