Anna Mantzaris is a San Francisco-based writer and editor. She has written for Fodor's, NPR, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. She is a former book and magazine editor, the author of nonfiction titles for Barnes & Noble and Globe Pequot, and a contributor to several travel guides.

She is the author of the flash fiction title Occupations (Galileo Press) and is a prize winner for the 2024  Eyelands Book Award. Her creative writing has appeared in Ambit, The Cortland Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Necessary Fiction, New World Writing Quarterly, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. 

She has been awarded writing residencies for her fiction by Hedgebrook (Whidbey Island, Washington) and The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, Nebraska). 

Anna received a B.A. From Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. from Mills College. She teaches writing in the M.F.A. program at Bay Path University.