Ania Vesenny is a novelist and short story author whose fiction has been published in prestigious journals across Canada and the U.S., including “Snowrise” in Per Contra, “At the Foot of the Mountain” in SmokeLong Quarterly (where she was also interviewed), “Postcards from Brazil” in elimae, and “Imagined Proximity to Death” in Descant.
Vesenny’s short story “Snowrise” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a recipient of the Evelyn Sullivan Gilbertson Award for Emerging Artist in Literature.
Vesenny is represented by the Beverly Slopen Literary Agency.
I have edited two novels for Vesenny, Swearing in Russian at the Northern Lights and Sandara.
Swearing in Russian at the Northern Lights: Haunting and meticulous, a single day in the life of Katya Joy shows her disintegrating under the loneliness and isolation of a small town in northern Canada, with her fears for her marriage and young daughter, her grief over her dying brother at home in Russia. . .and the very real possibility that she and her brother share the ability to magically transfer each other’s physical injuries to themselves. Katya learns of the Inuit myths of danger and redemption even as she moves toward her own inner mythology and the dangers of life and death in this mortal world.
Sandara: A mysterious woman who appears in the lives of two very different women, Sandara weaves together Frannie and Vera over the loss of the men they love—through Sandara’s powerful concept of herself as an amoral ‘faery’—even as she harbors the secret to the long-ago disappearance of the father of Frannie’s daughter, the mysterious boy who grew up with Frannie’s little girl, and the key to the girl’s own disappearance in adolescence . . .until Sandara’s ‘faery’ need for survival conflicts with the survival of everyone with whom she has entangled herself.
Vesenny says:
“Everything makes sense and is absolutely brilliant! Victoria, working with you has been an amazing experience. I love how you trimmed the language. I feel everything you said was already there, and you brought it up to the surface, gently and carefully. I thought it was scary to hire someone for an edit. Now it seems scarier to be on my own.”