Anna Nordberg is a freelance writer and journalist in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and son and daughter. For over ten years she worked as an editor at InStyle, Cookie, and Sunset, covering food, travel, fashion, health, and parenting before going freelance.

A few years ago she started going through the unpublished writing and journals of her mother, also a writer, who died when Anna was a teenager. This led to a focus in her writing on how loss unfolds throughout a life, and the vulnerability of being a parent with young children.

Anna’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Sunset. She is a member of the Writers Grotto. Born and raised in Manhattan, she has loved living on the West Coast but will probably always feel like a New Yorker.