Anne Panning grew up in Arlington, Minnesota an attended Augsburg College. She graduated in 1988 with a degree in English and then joined the Peace Corp. She served in the Philippines and the returned to the United States to Study her MFA in Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University, where she Graduated in 1993. She earned her PhD from University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997.
NPR’S BOOK OF THE DAY
- In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its future June 18, 2026How does a nationwide revolution affect the individual lives of its citizens? In the midst of the latest conflict in Iran, journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati set out to answer this question by charting Iran’s history since its 1979 revolution. The product is Stolen Revolution, a collection of accounts from six Iranians — each […]
- 'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams' June 17, 2026In 2022, journalist Carlos Barragán moved to Lagos, Nigeria to investigate a cybercrime network of text-based internet phishing, also known as “sweetheart scams." He found that a small band of young men known as the “Yahoo Boys” were creating fake avatars to lure American victims into online romances — a 21st-century iteration of the Yahoo […]
