Anne Kniggendorf is a staff writer and editor for the Kansas City Public Library and the author of Secret Kansas City and Kansas City Scavenger. She’s a regular contributor to KCUR 89.3 (Kansas City’s NPR affiliate), produces LitHub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, and has bylines in most local publications. Her work has also appeared on NPR, in the Smithsonian Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, the Saturday Evening Post, and numerous literary journals, and book reviews.