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Anna Barr

Anna Barr is a writer from Michigan living in Houston. She has her MFA in fiction from the University of Houston, where she was winner of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing. She is at work on her first novel.

Fiction

Fall 2025

Duplex

By Anna Barr

The Kenyon Review · “Duplex” by Anna Barr The last time I put on shoes, I went to Kroger. I bought winter vegetables: dirty turnips, parsnips, a taut head of […]