About

Anna Vitale is the author of Detroit Detroit (Roof Books, 2017), a book of autobiographical essays, poetry, and transcriptions of recordings of dreams about race, belonging, difference, friendship, and childhood in Detroit in the 90s. Her writing on David Wojnarowicz’s Arthur Rimbaud in New York series was published as the pamphlet Our Rimbaud Mask (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) and an edited version is included in the Leslie Lohman Museum’s catalogue for their 2025 exhibit of the Rimbaud series. Anna’s essay on hatred, race, and childhood development, “The Texture of Being and Becoming White,” was published in 2023 in the journal Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Much of Anna’s early work was shaped by music, including the chapbooks Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems and Unknown Pleasures, a tribute to the Joy Divison album and an address on suicidality. She began her career as a freeform radio DJ at WCBN-FM Ann Arbor and continued as host of The Tenderness Junction, soon-to-be resurrected on 97.3 WXTI-LPFM Tivoli.

Anna is working on a book about her mother and becoming a mother entitled Caregiver Radio. She lives with her family in Tivoli, NY.