About

Billie Anania is a writer, critic, and journalist living in Ridgewood, Queens whose work focuses on political economy in the cultural industries and the history of art in global liberation movements. Born and raised in New Jersey, she received a bachelor’s degree in literature from Villanova University and a master’s in rhetoric from Monmouth University. Since then, Billie has worked in journalism, advertising, and UX research while publishing essays, reports, and reviews, and in her spare time works with tenant unions and political organizations around Brooklyn.

Billie’s article “The Cop-Attacking Chilean Dog Who Became a Worldwide Symbol of Protest” was the second most popular article in Hyperallergic for the year 2019.

In 2021, her Boston Review interview “Bringing Abolition to the Museum” was included in the Strike MoMA Reader published by Verso Books.

Billie’s 2021 article “How Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Resistance” was the first popular Anglophone writeup on the subject, and later became the primary source for every mainstream media writeup in October 2023.

For May Day 2023, Billie joined a delegation of organizers and journalists in Havana and Santiago de Cuba to express solidarity with the Cuban people against the US economic blockade.

Billie’s first horror-fantasy novel, The Blood of the Archive, will be published in 2025.