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Anita Felicelli is the author of HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Northern California Book Awards and the 2024 Foreword Award for short story collections. Her other books are CHIMERICA: A NOVEL and LOVE SONGS FOR A LOST CONTINENT, which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award.

Anita is the books editor at Alta Journal and a former National Book Critics Circle board member. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times (Modern Love). She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

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	Love Songs for a Lost Continent 4.52 avg rating — 60 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chimerica 4.05 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Know Our Time Travelers: Stories 4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sparks Off You 3.55 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Izzy and Poe 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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