Anna Krien is an Australian journalist, essayist, fiction and nonfiction writer and poet.
Krien has contributed to a number of Australian publications, including The Monthly, The Age, The Big Issue, The Best Australian Essays,[1] Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused.
[3] In 2014 she became only the second woman to win the £25,000 (A$47,000) William Hill Sports Book of the Year award since its inception 1989.
[4] Krien has written two contributions to the Quarterly Essay — "Us & Them: On the Importance of Animals"[5] and "The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock".
[6] In 2019 she joined the judging panel for the Horne Prize.