Anna Kelly studied French and German literature at Wadham and is now Publishing Director at Abacus and Virago, both imprints of Little, Brown. She publishes literary fiction and non-fiction, including books in translation. In 2024 she published A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, an anthology of Kafkaesque short stories with contributions from bestselling, prize-winning authors including Tommy Orange, Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman and Charlie Kaufman.