Anne Trubek (born 1966) is an author and founder and director of Belt Magazine.
She has written The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, and A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses.
[5] Since Trubek founded it as a membership-driven nonprofit in 2013, Belt Publishing has brought out essay collections, guidebooks, and fiction about the culture and landscapes of the Midwest, developing a reputation for combining a regional focus with political and intellectual seriousness and a sense of literary history.
[7][8] Trubek was a professor of rhetoric and composition at Oberlin College between 1997 and 2015, and then began freelance writing to earn more money.
[11] Trubek's works are often concerned with the social history of widespread aspects of reading and writing, including the history of handwriting—she was an early advocate of phasing out the teaching of cursive—the emergence of paperback novels, and the trend toward making popular writers’ houses into museums.