Anj Baker is a writer from Central Appalachia, now living in suburban Illinois, USA and working as a neuroscience research technician. They're a 2024 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop and a first reader for the spec fic mag Fusion Fragment.

Short fiction

"Infinity and a Spelunker" in Fusion Fragment. August 2024. Ed. Cavan Terrill.

"The Alchemist and Her House" in The Fifth Di... August 2024. Ed. Tyree Campbell

"Tall Tales a Magician Hears" in Astral, Alien Fiction. Issue 1. March 2024. Eds. Sloum and Elevens.

"Granny Gertie the Witch" in Broken Olive Branches. January 2024. Ed. Stephanie Rabig.

"Sit Up With Your Dead" in Dark Blooms: Girls' Coming-of-Age Horrors. January 2024. Ed. Ruth Anna Evans.

"Only the Shape" in 34 Orchard. Issue 8. November 2023. Ed. Kristi P. Schoonover.

"The Tent Revival on Galvani H764" in Dark Matter Magazine. Issue 014. March/April 2023. Ed. Rob Carroll.

Poetry

"Renter life: some Discord messages" in Anthropocene Poetry. March 2025. Ed. Charlie Baylis.

Nonfiction

Film journalism at Little White Lies.

Music journalism at PopMatters.

Music journalism at Bitter Sweet Symphonies.

Lifestyle, culture, and creative nonfiction at The Attic on Eighth.

Audiodrama

Missives from a New Ghost Town

Antigone with the Lexington Rude Mechanicals

Stageplays

Harry Heartbreaker

Cactusland