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Ana Hein

@anahein.bsky.social

This account is for yearning.
Emerson BFA '22 Columbia MFA '25
Feminist Latina 🇦🇷
Personal essayist and critic. I write things sometimes. She/hers

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Ana Hein @anahein.bsky.social · Aug 15

New essay up over at @electricliterature.com where I gush about how cool friendship is, also writing about friendship and writing through friendship and the friendship between authors I admire. In short, yay friends! Also, yay to my editor, Willem Marx!
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Friendship is My Writing Process - Electric Literature

Swapping laptops at coffee shops, asking for ideas, sending emails and texts and voice notes are essential to my art

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Ana Hein

@anahein.bsky.social

Friendship is My Writing Process - Electric Literature

Swapping laptops at coffee shops, asking for ideas, sending emails and texts and voice notes are essential to my art

electricliterature.com

August 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM

Ana Hein

@anahein.bsky.social

This one is for all my literary Swifties! A review of Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift, edited by Kristie Frederick Daugherty. Up now on Compulsive Reader!
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Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift Edited by Kristie Frederick Daugherty – Compulsive Reader

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June 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM

Ana Hein

@anahein.bsky.social

New essay out about playing a wacky romantic puzzle game with my ex immediately after we broke up--also what it means to choose a partner and how decisions construct life narratives. Up now on AFM! Many thanks to Lucy McKeon for editing! feeld.co/magazine/ple...

The intersection between video games and romance | A Feeld Magazine

In this break-up story, video games, non-player characters and playable characters give insight into what exactly happened in this romantic relationship.

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May 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Ana Hein

@anahein.bsky.social

I have a new essay up at @therumpus.net where I unpack my favorite sentence, which happens to be the opening to my favorite short story, and ask the burning question: can sentences be sexy? Many thanks to @arammrjoian.bsky.social for editing this!
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