Anna Snoekstra is an internationally best selling author.
She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where she writes from an old football factory in the backstreets of Thornbury.
Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for many literary magazines and newspapers including The Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, The Sydney Morning Herald, Crime Reads and The Griffith Review. She is also a profile writer for The Saturday Paper.
Her next novel The Ones We Love will be released in 2025 with Dutton (Penguin Random House) in North America and Ultimo Press in Australia. She has had video work exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria and has written audio novellas This Isn’t Happening and the forthcoming The End of The Ski Season.
Anna is represented by Stephanie Rostan at LGR Literary and Jon Cassir at CAA.
Features
Time is the Best Killer, CRIMEREADS, May 2023
Method Writing and the Limits of Research, KILL YOUR DARLINGS, July 2022
Too Tired to Keep Track, SUNDAY LIFE — THE AGE/THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, June 2022
Exploring Melbourne Post-Lockdown, HERE MAGAZINE April 2021
The Doorway to the Deep, LINDSAY MAGAZINE #4
Are We What We Do?, MEANJIN QUARTERLY Feb 2019
The Women of Aussie Noir, LITHUB, 2018
The Art of Capturing Taiwan; The Craft of Translating It, LINDSAY MAGAZINE, 2017
Famiglia: a Tale Told Through Food, LINDSAY MAGAZINE 2017
A City Where Books Live and Breath, LINDSAY MAGAZINE, 2017
From Bluebeard to Gone Girl, THE GUARDIAN 2016
Profiles
Director Sam Strong, THE SATURDAY PAPER, Febuary 2025
First Nations Artist Reko Rennie, THE SATURDAY PAPER, October 2024
The Heldentenor and the Mezzo-Seprano, THE AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, May 2024
Exquisite Dissonance: Hoda Afshar, THE LUXURY REPORT, October 2023
Composer Genevieve Lacey, THE SATURDAY PAPER, June 2023
Theatre Director Adena Jacobs, THE SATURDAY PAPER, April 2023
Director Susie Dee, THE SATURDAY PAPER, January 2023
Writer Jack Thorne, THE SATURDAY PAPER, November 2022
Burlesque Performer and Director Moira Finucane, THE SATURDAY PAPER, July 2022
Short Stories
The Red Esky, THE SATURDAY PAPER, April 2023Big Baby, THE SATURDAY PAPER, April 2022
Mitzy, THE SATURDAY PAPER, October 2021
The View From Up Here, THE GRIFFITH REVIEW #56
The Siren, REACHING OUT Anthology, Harper Collins