Athena Dixon is the author of the essay collections The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press 2020) and The Loneliness Files (Tin House 2023). Her poetry chapbook, No God in This Room, was the 2018 Winner of the Argus House Press Intersectional Midwest Chapbook Contest. Athena’s craft work appears in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books 2022) and her poetry is included in the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books 2018).
Her work has also appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Literary Hub, Shenandoah Literary Journal, GAY Magazine, Grub Street, and The Washington Square Review among others.
Athena is the Nonfiction/Hybrid Editor for Split/Lip Press and a Consulting Editor for Fourth Genre Magazine. She has been awarded a 2nd book residency from Tin House and a prose fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.
She resides in Philadelphia.
Editorial Services
Developmental editing and sensitivity reads are available upon request. Please contact athenadixon@gmail.com to discuss your project and editorial needs for pricing.
Please see the linked calendar for upcoming events and appearances
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