ANNA DELLA SUBIN

Anna Della Subin is a writer and critic, working at the intersection of politics, myth, and the history of the imagination.

She is the author of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine, published by Metropolitan (Henry Holt) in the US, Granta Books in the UK, and in translation in several languages. It was named a Book of the Year in The TLS, Esquire, The Telegraph, an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times, and was shortlisted for English PEN’s 2023 Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

Anna Della contributes regularly to the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books. Her essays and literary criticism have also appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, The TLS, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian Long Read, Frieze, and The Paris Review. Her treatise Not Dead But Sleeping, on the cultural politics of sleep, is out in paperback from Triple Canopy. 

In 2025, Anna Della was co-host with Marina Warner of "Fiction and the Fantastic," a podcast series from the London Review of Books that traverses classic texts of enchantment.

She has given talks and lectures widely, from the Jaipur Literature Festival, the Venice Biennale, and the International Literature Festival Berlin, to her alma maters Harvard Divinity School and the University of Chicago.

At Bidoun, the award-winning publishing and curatorial initiative focused on the Middle East and its diasporas, Anna Della is a senior editor. She is also a contributing editor at The Public Domain Review, and serves on the advisory board of Ibis Editions from Wesleyan University Press. She lives in New York City.