Anna Goodman Herrick (they/them) is an author, performance artist, and interdisciplinary artist. They have performed their poetry and installation texts at Hauser & Wirth, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books, and at the Emily Dickinson Museum, including from their gallery and museum installations and the book that followed. In June 2026, Newsweek featured Anna as a leading voice in LGBTQ+ advocacy and representation.
Anna is a 2025 City of Los Angeles Commissioned Artist, and author of the poetry collection A Speaker is a Wilderness (Monkfish, 2024). Medical News Today featured the book for its creative contributions to mental health. Anna has created work on the Oprah Winfrey Network and Netflix. Their art and writing appears in Together We Rise: Voices from the Frontlines of Freedom (Daxson Publishing, 2026), Assembly: Liberatory Words for Revolutionary Times (9th House Press, 2026), and many other publications.
“Anna revels in beauty and sacredness, a testament to defiantly vowing to not live in fear.”
— Kara Lewis, Write Poetry
BOOKS & PUBLISHED WRITING
A Speaker is a Wilderness (Monkfish, 2024)
by Anna Goodman Herrick
poetry collection, including texts from Anna’s installations
Available wherever books are sold.
What people are saying
Assembly: Liberatory Words for Revolutionary Times (9th House Press, Nov 2026)
Anthology
Pre-order
Together We Rise: Voices from the Frontlines of Freedom (Daxson Publishing, 2026)
Anthology
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Reflections on Exile (Root Division, 2020)
Group Exhibit Catalogue for purchase
Purchase
Sunday 7.26.26
Queer & Trans Water Ritual, Anna Goodman Herrick
Site-Specific Installation + Ritual
At Queer Reset, presented by With Love Projects in collaboration with Living Canvas Foundation and The Unnamed Place
Anna Goodman Herrick on their practice: the relationship between their writing, interdisciplinary art and performance
Reading “Wonder”
from A Speaker is a Wilderness
Stories Bookstore, with Los Angeles Press
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A Speaker is a Wilderness:
Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole (Monkfish)
Anna’s poems, including texts from Anna’s installations
Available wherever books are sold.
“This is a powerful new volume of poetry from a fierce, feminist perspective.”
— Broad Street Review, The Best Books I’ve Read So Far, editor’s picks
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“Listening to Anna Goodman Herrick read a poem made the hair on my arm stand up. I wonder if we could measure the effects of good poetry on electrodermal activity.”
—Timothy Green, Editor, Rattle Magazine
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“Performer, poet, and filmmaker Anna Goodman Herrick brings to her collection a deep knowledge and a bold, imaginative palette. Her poems affirm and celebrate our power to reimagine ourselves and the world.”
— Stephanie Barbé Hammer, The Jewish Book Council
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“Anna revels in beauty and sacredness, a testament to defiantly vowing to not live in fear. She writes of a new beginning, informed by tragedy but refusing to be defined by it: ‘We opened/ the windows of ourselves, sent the night out searching/ for our collective liberation like a raven/ for the end of the flood.’”
— Kara Lewis, Write Poetry