Hi! I'm Annie Kiyonaga, a writer and educator based in Queens, NY. I'm interested in a lot of things: literacy and education; books and publishing; art historical and cultural commentary.
I've worked for nonprofits, research labs, and schools as a teacher, curriculum designer, editor, writer, and research assistant. I have a master's degree in education from Harvard's Graduate School of Education, where I studied Language and Literacy. I was also a Morehead-Cain scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, where I studied English and art history.
You can find me on Substack, or contact me at annakiyonaga@gmail.com.
Writing
2025
- NYC Bookstore Reviews
- Topos Bookstore
- The Center for Fiction
- Alabaster Bookstore
- Book Culture
- Everything I Read & Where I Read It
- September 1 - 7
- August 25 - 31
- August 17 - 24
- August 10 - 17
- August 3 - 10
- July 27 - August 3
- July 20 - 27
- July 13 - 20
- July 7 - 13
- June 30 - July 6
- Other substack posts
- I love traveling with my Type A husband
- Should I keep teaching this year?
- Team Nana?
- Books of my life
2020
- Artists at Risk Connection / PEN America
- Profile: Badiucao
- Profile: Yulia Tsvetkova
2019
- Exhibition Catalog for Turner Carroll Gallery
- Igor Melnikov at the Grace Museum
- The Daily Tar Heel
- "Nuns, too" and my own reckoning with the Church
- UNC administration should learn from Charlie Scott
2018
- WCAI Local NPR for the Cape, Coast & Islands
- In the Eyes of the Beholder: The Arts Can Reignite Expression in Dementia Patients
- The Daily Tar Heel
- Stop talking about food during the holidays
- Thank you, Mark McCombs
- Kavanaugh and my own Mater Dei boy story
- Bookshop cat, where you at? I miss you.
- Why do vermin get us squirmin'?
- On 'The Bachelor,' every rose has its thorn
- Happy Valentine's Ash Wednesday!
- Loving, leaving and loving Kesha again
- "That's Pig Latin, itch-bay"
2017
- Exberliner
- Find your own Alternative for Deutschland!
- Lusty nights: Porn producer Erika Lust at Sisyphos
- The Daily Tar Heel
- What I saw in Looking Glass
- To the raccoon I killed, I'm sorry
- What am I doing with my life?
- Girl to woman to girl to woman
- Column, columns, art and the NEA
- The power of the queen
- I had the sickest break of all time