Anna’s work explores the struggle of language to approach those things most difficult to put into words. Their themes include motherhood, failure, our ghosts and the shakiness of boundaries (temporal, physical and otherwise).
Anna lectures in creative writing and literature, and runs regular writing workshops and mentoring.
They are currently co-guest-editor of Studies in the Maternal Journal. Anna also co-founded the Visceral Bodies research group.
Anna Brook (they/them) is a London based writer and poet.
Their book Motherhood: A Ghost Story, was released in 2025 with Broken Sleep Books
and their pamphlet h for ghost is released by Salò Press in February 2026.