Anna with friends.

b. 1997, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (ROK)

Anna Carlsson is a writer and editor born in South Korea, raised in Warrnambool but now resides on Wurundjeri land. She is an associate editor at Art Guide Australia and editor of Rooney.

She is a 2026 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.

Anna Carlsson (middle) with Tom and Ella in Brunswick, 2026

Published Work

‘Survival Skills’, Art Guide Australia, print issue 162, July 2026

20 Questions with Alfred Lowe’, Art Guide Australia, print issue 161, May 2026

Politics for Hot People’, Kinotopia, April 2026

Inside Ema Shin’s Studio’, Art Guide Australia, print issue 160, March 2026

Umbilical Cord’, Runway Journal/Worms Magazine, February 2026

Melbourne’s Art Affair’, Art Guide Australia, February 2026

Forever Young’, Art Guide Australia print issue 159, January 2026

The regenerative power of spring’, Art Guide Australia, August 2025

substack: Pleasure Principle

Co-founded with Isabella Suckling

Stuck at Cultural Kickons’, May 2026

Emotionally Slutty’, January 2026

Girlhood Marketplace’, October 2025

Baggage’, February 2025

Babyboy’, Janurary 2025