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Anne Gisleson

Biography

Anne Gisleson

Anne Gisleson's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Oxford American, The Believer, Ecotone, The Los Angeles Times, and has been selected for inclusion in several anthologies, including BEST AMERICAN NON-REQUIRED READING. For years, Anne was chair of the Creative Writing Program at the internationally-renowned New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. In 2005, she co-founded Antenna in New Orleans, where she lives.

Anne Gisleson

Books by Anne Gisleson

The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
by Anne Gisleson - Memoir, Nonfiction

Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own trauma, losing his partner and the mother of his son to cancer in her young 30s. In the midst of forging their happiness, Anne and Brad found that their friends had been suffering their own losses and crises as well. Together these resilient New Orleanians formed what they called the Existential Crisis Reading Group, jokingly dubbed "The Futilitarians." Each month they read and talked about identity, parenting, love, mortality and life in post-Katrina New Orleans, gatherings that increasingly fortified Anne and helped her blaze a trail out of her well-worn grief.