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Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Family—
Mom, Dad, Brother,
Alex & baby Essie…
I wrote something about us
And it’s quite intimate.
That was the point and yet, I feel naked. You must too.
I am grateful and thankful for (almost) every challenge that I’ve written about and otherwise. I'm most grateful for the ODD brand of JOY I was born into with you lot.
You taught me the wisdom of outsiderness without saying it and for a time I tried to deny it swam in me but when I embraced it, life opened.
Despite wondering every day, why are we all here—
The main answer I have is a prayer-ful, smiling, calling out into the sky LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE. And to that I say, OKAY ☺️ (today).
I LOVE YOU my family. Thank you for letting me be with you, sending support in sharing our story (from one vantage point) and supporting art over vanity. It’s not lost on me that I am lucky.
Father, I miss you.
-anna

Nothing like taking your micro-thong off after a long week. It was a good one

Nothing like taking your micro-thong off after a long week. It was a good one

Nothing like taking your micro-thong off after a long week. It was a good one

Nothing like taking your micro-thong off after a long week. It was a good one

Nothing like taking your micro-thong off after a long week. It was a good one

It’s a wonder how a semi-autobiographical TV show trying to depict unhinged-ness of being girls —being tweens—got made. The Sane One is my memoir 🫣 and there is no longer a “semi” to hide behind (get ur mind out of the gutter fools). And the exploration of girlhood and womanhood and…. humanhood (🤷‍♀️) is more raw, brutal, and melancholy but also speaks to our resilience. So… a warning anddd an invitation? But it is funny too. Pretty sure.

Also, I am taking the opportunity with this book tour to stage some chapters more like a play reading. With wonderful actors 🙇🏼‍♀️. It will be an experiment. I can promise a middle school chapter. But there will be other decades of discomfort too.

So NYC, come join on May 7 if you can! 7pm at The Strand (an institution so if my knees buckle, just help me up—all good).

Tickets in bio 🌳

Robby wants to see Meg's bigger trailer part II

CHICAGO.

Hi sry can u save a dance for me later or no? If u don't hate me I could like rest my head on ur shoulder (metaphorically) @citywinerychi book event — there’s a staged reading w/ Namir Smallwood & @xkarenxrodriguez, cootie catchers and book signing too. 12pm @ City Winery May 9, k hun? Mama all grown up now (I'm mama). Tickets in bio.
xo

Save me a dance.

First book tour stop: LA. Tinsel town. Holly weird. Wear ur best thong. And join us for a special reading of The Sane One (@timheidecker will play my OG middle school crush)
May 5 @ Harmony Gold!
Tickets in bio!

“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle. “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”

Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.

Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle

“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle. “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”

Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.

Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle

“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle. “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”

Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.

Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle

“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle. “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”

Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.

Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle

“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle. “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”

Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.

Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle

“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle. “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”

Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.

Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle

“[Pen15] was semi-autobiographical and sometimes felt like some very expensive therapy,” writes the show’s co-creator, @annaryankonkle. “My co-creator Maya and I had written our parents as versions of our real parents. I wrote lines of dialogue where they’d fight with each other and make up, like they did in real life. And just like real life, they would eventually divorce in the show — and even split the house in two.”

Konkle relived many parts of her relationship with her father for the show — while not being in contact with him — before they finally reconnected. She recounts the first dinner they had together after their estrangement in her new memoir, 'The Sane One' (out May 5). Read the full excerpt at the link in bio.

Photos: Courtesy of Anna Konkle

Book tour comin’ straight to ya LA! After five follow up phone calls… Rachel said yes. Tim too, eventually. First stop: LA on May 5 with @booksoup 📕 🍜@harmonygoldpreviewhouse
Tickets in bio!

Moderator: @racheldoesstuff
Middle School crush: @timheidecker
My partner, playing… himself: @alexanfanger 💜
My Pen15 mom and dad Melora Walters and Taylor Nichols 🫶

I'll be signing books and year 2000 cootie catchers (for real)

Book tour comin’ straight to ya LA! After five follow up phone calls… Rachel said yes. Tim too, eventually. First stop: LA on May 5 with @booksoup 📕 🍜@harmonygoldpreviewhouse
Tickets in bio!

Moderator: @racheldoesstuff
Middle School crush: @timheidecker
My partner, playing… himself: @alexanfanger 💜
My Pen15 mom and dad Melora Walters and Taylor Nichols 🫶

I'll be signing books and year 2000 cootie catchers (for real)

Book tour comin’ straight to ya LA! After five follow up phone calls… Rachel said yes. Tim too, eventually. First stop: LA on May 5 with @booksoup 📕 🍜@harmonygoldpreviewhouse
Tickets in bio!

Moderator: @racheldoesstuff
Middle School crush: @timheidecker
My partner, playing… himself: @alexanfanger 💜
My Pen15 mom and dad Melora Walters and Taylor Nichols 🫶

I'll be signing books and year 2000 cootie catchers (for real)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

From no photos please to showing ur childhood party trick in the middle of dinner to prove u have ehrlos danos syndrome. This is 39 (don't zoom in on last slide)

The thing about reading “The Sane One" — no matter where you’re reading it, you’re sane.

Memoir out may 5.

The thing about reading “The Sane One" — no matter where you’re reading it, you’re sane.

Memoir out may 5.

The thing about reading “The Sane One" — no matter where you’re reading it, you’re sane.

Memoir out may 5.

After narrating the audiobook for my memoir The Sane One I’ve moved into the bathroom stalls at Random House 🙂‍↕️

After narrating the audiobook for my memoir The Sane One I’ve moved into the bathroom stalls at Random House 🙂‍↕️

After narrating the audiobook for my memoir The Sane One I’ve moved into the bathroom stalls at Random House 🙂‍↕️

After narrating the audiobook for my memoir The Sane One I’ve moved into the bathroom stalls at Random House 🙂‍↕️

After narrating the audiobook for my memoir The Sane One I’ve moved into the bathroom stalls at Random House 🙂‍↕️

After narrating the audiobook for my memoir The Sane One I’ve moved into the bathroom stalls at Random House 🙂‍↕️

After narrating the audiobook for my memoir The Sane One I’ve moved into the bathroom stalls at Random House 🙂‍↕️

Part one of being an influencer: fulfilling little Anna's dream of narrating an audiobook. The Sane One is out May 5 and I’m going on book tour! If you’re near LA, NYC, Chicago, or Austin, grab a ticket and come hang.