Anne Boyd Rioux

Recovering Women's Voices * Telling Women's Stories

I am a writer passionate about travel and women’s stories. 

I was an English professor for 23 years and have left academia to write full time. In September 2022, I sold my house in New Orleans and bought a one-way ticket to Paris. I have been traveling around Europe ever since. You can follow my journey by signing up for my Substack newsletter below.  

In addition to memoir and essay writing, I have been working on a book about the largely forgotten author Kay Boyle (in the picture above). I’ve received four awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two for Public Scholarship,  and written three books, as well as edited four more, all related to 19th-century American women authors.

You can find my writing at LitHub, the Washington Post, Lapham’s Quarterly, and elsewhere.

News

I’ve been moderating a series of Zoom workshops for the Biographers International Organization, where I am a member of the Board of Directors. The latest was an interview of Ruth Franklin in a new series on “Reading Biographies Like a Biographer.” In the past year I have also moderated “BIO’s Coaches Answer First-Time Biographers’ Questions” and participated as a coach in “Proposal Writing and Promotion.”