Anri Wheeler

Anri Wheeler is a writer, educator, and mother to three strong daughters. She teaches writing at the Massachusetts College of Art of Design and GrubStreet and is the nonfiction editor at Pangyrus magazine. She is an alumna of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, VONA, and Tin House. She has done residencies at Ragdale and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She is working on a memoir about race, class, and mermaids. Her essays and reviews have appeared in LitHub, The Boston Globe, Hippocampus, Brevity Blog, and Seventh Wave, among others. She is a Japanese American New Yorker living in New England.
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  • Cana

    The Magazine
    The first time I met my now in-laws, devout Catholics, it was Easter weekend. Dave and I had been dating for five months.
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  • Aerial picture of two orcas, mother and child, swimming near surface of ocean

    On Caregiving

    Insights
    “How do we honor the powerful modalities of care that have always, and continue to, exist outside the bounds of dominant culture and systems?”
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