2026 - Anaïs Van Ertvelde
Anaïs Van Ertvelde (b. 1988, she/her) is a Belgian writer and historian.
She teaches at the art college KASK and writes books, essays, columns, and podcasts focusing on sexuality, gender, the body, and disability.
In 2017, she co-authored Vuile Lakens: Een hedendaagse visie op seksualiteit (Dirty Sheets: A Contemporary Vision of Sexuality) with writer and journalist Heleen Debruyne, based on their podcast series of the same name. Her essay Zorgangst (Care Anxiety), which explores feminist and crip fears surrounding receiving and providing care, was published in 2022. In 2024, she released Handicap: Een bevrijding (Disability: A Liberation). In this book, she dissects what the world tells us about disability, and illuminates what disability can tell us about the world.
During her residency in Norwich, she will be working on her first novel.