Anaïs Godard is a Franco-American speculative fiction writer, the 2025 Mike Resnick Memorial Award winner for her story Elsewhere. She is also a Best of The Net Nominee for her essay How to Cremate Your Pet Squirrel, which won the Letter Review Prize. Her work appears in McSweeney’s, Fractured Lit, Hobart, Creation Magazine, and elsewhere. Anaïs is a Tin House Workshop alumna and an Idyllwild Arts Fiction Fellow. She also contributes book reviews to CALYX, where she examines symbolism and meaning-making through a feminist lens.

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Trained in linguistics and semiotics at La Sorbonne, Anaïs gravitates toward layered, surreal storytelling shaped by her experiences as a woman, an immigrant, and the mother of neurodivergent twins.

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A former television producer, she co-founded @nastywomenLA to amplify women’s voices in the arts. Her activism has been featured in exhibitions such as WE RISE LA and the Mothership Festival. She lives in Los Angeles, where she writes and wanders libraries with her children.

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She is represented by Laurie McLean at Fuse Literary. Her debut novel, The Tether and the Flame, is currently on submission while she drafts her second book.