Anna Snoekstra is an award winning author and screenwriter.



She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where she writes from an old football factory in the backstreets of Thornbury.

She is the author of Only Daughter, Little Secrets and The Spite Game. Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Lindsay, The Sydney Morning Herald, LitHub, The Griffith Review and is a profile writer for The Saturday Paper.

In 2022 she released the critically acclaimed Out of Breath and in 2023 she released her first audio drama This Isn’t Happening. 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. 

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


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 2023

Big 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