Anahid Nersessian was born and raised in New York City. She is the author of three books—Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (Verso, 2022; U of Chicago P, 2021), The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life (Chicago, 2020), and Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment (Harvard UP, 2015). Her fourth book, How to Have Sex in a Poem, will be published in 2027 by FSG. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, New Left Review, n+1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, Bidoun, Poetry Magazine, Mousse, e-flux, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor in the Department of English at UCLA. In 2026, she began a three-year term on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
