Ann de Forest

Ann de Forest is a California-born writer, editor, and essayist who has lived in Philadelphia for more than thirty years. Her work focuses on place and the resonance of the urban landscape. She edited Ways of Walking (New Door Books, 2022), an anthology of 26 essays by writers reflecting on walks and what they discovered along the way. She is also editor of Extant Magazine and a contributing writer for Hidden City Daily. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in literary journals including Hippocampus, One Art, and Gyroscope Review, and in The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia.