Anj Baker is a writer from Central Appalachia, now living in suburban Illinois, USA. 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

"Flesh Would Melt" in Bleating Thing Magazine. November 2025. Ed. Amy Jannotti.

"The Pysche Passes the Time in Kismet Magazine. October 2025. Ed. M. J. Woods.

"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.

• Included on the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards' Recommended Reading List
• Produced by The NoSleep Podcast. S22E18.

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

• Produced by Thirteen Podcast. Episode 85.

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

Poetry

"Liver for the Lady" in The Vehicle. May 2026.

Three poems in Sybil Journal. March 2026.

"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

• A lonely young woman comes to in an infinite hallway of pianos that don't work and sweaters that don't keep you warm, of doorways to all realities. But the really strange things happen in a phlegmatic little world that calls itself a New Ghost Town.

Antigone with the Lexington Rude Mechanicals

• An NBC Kings-esque take on Sophocles' Antigone. An intrepid reporter combines interviews with survivors and declassified state secret recordings to uncover what exactly happened during the Antigone Scandal some decades prior.

Stageplays

Harry Heartbreaker

• Approx 150 minutes, 3m
• Three young men, touring musicians for a dying nostalgia act, wrestle with life, love, art, and what it means to Sell Out, and if it Matters.
• Script available upon request.

Cactusland

• Approx 120 minutes, 1nb, 2 any gender
• A former scientist waits at home for the end of the world, haunted by figments of their imagination as the radiation rolls in.
• Script available upon request.

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