Bio

Anna Mantzaris is a San Francisco-based freelance writer who covers travel, food, and the arts for magazines, newspapers and the web. Her work has appeared in publications including Salon, Budget Travel, Fodor’s and USA Weekend. She has been on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle, St. Martin’s Press and Weldon Owen Publishing. She is a regular reviewer for Publishers Weekly, as well as a contributor/editor to several travel guides. She holds a B.A. From Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. from Mills College. She was awarded writer-in-residence fellowships for her fiction by Hedgebrook, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and is currently at work on a collection of short stories. She is also an adjunct writing instructor for Berkeley City College.