Creative Nonfiction

Skin Hunger

ANNE ROYAN is a graduate of Savannah College of Art & Design (MFA), Brown University (BA) and the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University. After leaving a job in the fashion department at Harper’s Bazaar in New York City, she spent many months traveling solo through the Himalayas. She taught English and poetry to monks in the Dalai Lama’s temple and to Tibetan refugee children. She is currently completing a memoir based on notes from her travel journals.

to get out of bed at 2 am and walk down to the bar because I.

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