ABOUT *mixed roots*

Mixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. *Mixed Roots* complicates the narrative around race and identity—dispelling narrow ideas that there is ever one “right” or singular way for folks to identify.

Born out of a community of writers formed through Anne Liu Kellor’s *Both/And* writing workshop, *Mixed Roots* collects 29 personal essays infused with a deep examination of inherited belief systems, racism, whiteness, migration, families, ancestry, paradox, and healing. Society so often wants to divide us into either/or categories, but *Mixed Roots* says, my story is complex and can be told in a multitude of ways.

In a time of increased polarization, *Mixed Roots* invites more of us to examine the historical legacies and harm caused by racism within ourselves and our communities. With compelling, intimate prose, the voices in *Mixed Roots* honor the realities we’ve inherited around race, at the same time that they push against old assumptions.

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Anne Liu Kellor is a mixed-race Chinese American writer, editor, and teacher based in Seattle. She is the author of *Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging*, and the editor of *Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging* (Beacon Press, October 2026). Her essays have appeared in *YES! Magazine,* *Memoir Land, Longreads, Fourth Genre, Witness, New England Review,* and many more. She earned her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and is the recipient of fellowships from Hedgebrook, The Whiteley Center, The Seventh Wave, Jack Straw Writers Program, 4Culture, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods. Anne teaches writing workshops online and across the Pacific Northwest, including her annual workshop, *Both/And: Reading and Writing the Mixed-Race Experience*. She also facilitates a Yearlong Creative Nonfiction Manuscript Program for women and nonbinary writers seeking mentorship, accountability, developmental editing and community.

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“Each writer within this anthology boldly charts their own path to belonging. But the true magic forms in the broader chorus, where voices who have never felt a ‘we’ write themselves into collective lineage... This anthology is a gift for anyone who lives within the both/and.”

— Tessa Hulls, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and artist of FEEDING GHOSTS

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Both/and: reading and writing the mixed Race Experience is open for registration until June 29th! Scholarship applications due 6.15.26. Payment plans are available.

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Recent Work

Read my essays: “How to Make Friends During the Apocalypse” in Memoir Land, “Shapeshifting: Discovering the ‘We’ in Mixed-Race Experiences” in YES! Magazine, and “Miseducated: Encounters with Blackness and Whiteness,” in Seventh Wave Magazine.

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Testimonials

Anne is the kind of person whose presence inspires a feeling of belonging and safety. I did some of my best writing while participating in her classes. She somehow managed to pull the important stories out of me, and then inspired me to do the work of turning them into pieces of writing I was proud of.

—Margie Schubert

Anne reconnected me to my relationship with writing and ensured that we would try not to lose sight of each other again. She shows up as a mentor with plenty of wisdom and words to share but also as a fellow writer, learning and stumbling alongside everyone she teaches. It is both humbling and inspiring to watch her and engage with her as a teacher and as a comrade. She tirelessly tweaks her approaches and material, never settling or getting comfortable. Her intentional practices are invigorating to be a part of.

–Melissa Moran

I love to teach and work with other writers. For nearly twenty years, I’ve facilitated workshops for people of all ages and experience levels, centering the voices of women, BIPOC, and other marginalized people. My offerings focus on creative nonfiction, memoir, and generative community-oriented workshops to help folks build and sustain a writing practice (formerly through the Hugo House in Seattle, and now mostly online through independent workshops). I offer uniquely tailored courses for mixed-race people, women of color, and women and non-binary writers, as well as seasonal drop-in writing and mindfulness circles or occasional collaborative workshop/fundraisers to foster courage, activism, and connection in these times. Both/And: Reading and Writing the Mixed Race Experience will be offered again in the summer of 2026, in its sixth incarnation, the workshop that led to the creation of the Mixed Roots anthology.

Since 2020, I have offered an annual, online yearlong creative nonfiction manuscript program for a small cohort of women and nonbinary writers (sorry, no cisgender males, to foster more vulnerable sharing). The focus is on creating a strong community to support each other through the long, transformative process of committing to writing a book. Participants set and share goals; explore individual strengths and challenges; discuss the writing process and craft; learn about book structures and publication; meet every two weeks or more as a group online, receive coaching calls every two months, and receive a full manuscript evaluation/developmental edit. Information about how to apply for the 2027-2028 cohort will be available by June of 2027.

As a facilitator, creativity coach, and developmental editor, I love working with writers from diverse backgrounds and experience levels, whether in group settings or one-on-one. I offer scholarships or sliding scales when possible.

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