published poet - Workshop Facilitator - UCL graduate

published poet - Facilitator - UCL graduate

Tracing Ripples of Belonging

How do our languages, places and encounters shape who we become?

“For me, words don't translate concepts, but images carry them.”

For me, words don't translate concepts; images carry them.

Poetry Book

“Sometimes, thoughts, people, or events fall into our lives, and they stir something within us. This book traces the ripples they create.”

Tracing Ripples

A poetry collection about the moments, people and places that quietly shape us. Through intimate reflections on identity, connection and belonging, Tracing Ripples invites readers to recognise their own memories, transitions and encounters within its pages. Created in collaboration with Vietnamese visual artist Hiền Nguyễn.

“A heart laid open. Many lines touch you in a way that lets you find yourself in them.” – Luis, Amazon review

Peek inside the book

Tracing Ripples

“A heart laid open. Many lines touch you in a way that lets you find yourself in them.” – Luis, Amazon review

Peek inside the book

Workshop

A word is never just a word. Sometimes it carries a childhood, a landscape, a person, or a feeling that translation cannot fully hold. This workshop offers reconnection.

Tracing Tides & Transitions

Whether you've moved between countries, languages, cultures or simply different chapters of life, you may notice different parts of yourself emerge in different contexts. Through guided writing, multilingual exploration and concise poetic forms, this workshop offers space to reconnect these experiences, uncover unexpected connections and give language to what often remains difficult to express. No previous writing experience required.

“When I think of raspberries, I picture bright, uniform fruit on a supermarket shelf. Himbeeren are different: smaller, softer, growing in my mother’s garden in Germany.”

Discover the Workshop

Read the essay this workshop grew out of

Tracing Tides & Transitions

“When I think of raspberries, I picture bright, uniform fruit on a supermarket shelf. Himbeeren are different: smaller, softer, growing in my mother’s garden in Germany.”

Discover the workshop

Read the essay this workshop grew out of

About

Anna Fuchs is a facilitator, multilingual poet and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores language, migration, memory and place. Born in Germany and having lived across Ireland, the UK, Italy, Vietnam and Austria, she writes from sustained experience of moving between languages and cultures. Her debut poetry collection, Tracing Ripples was published by Herodot in 2026. She facilitates an international weekly writing group connecting participants across continents, taught language and conversation-phonetics courses at the Goethe-Institut Vietnam, and was awarded a scholarship to study with Andrea Grill at Vienna’s Schule für Dichtung. She holds a First-Class Honours BSc in Social Sciences from UCL.

Featured by Münchner Merkur, kulturweit (UNESCO) and Leipziger Buchmesse.

“All language has been a reflection of who I was becoming.”

Bavaria, Germany — Meath, Ireland — London, United Kingdom — Bergamo, Italy — Berlin, Germany — Vienna, Austria

Bavaria, Germany — Ireland — London, United Kingdom — Italy — Berlin, Germany — Vienna, Austria

Projects

Curating shared tables as Artitist-in-Residence, responding to Venice Biennale 26 and writing Letters to Places. And the weekly poetry group!

atTERRAre – Artist in Residence

An upcoming residency at atTERRAre between belonging, clay, and food practices. Creating shared tables.

“Food as social connector, something that roots people in place.”

Read about the residency

Picperspec

A self-founded international writing collective – one photo, many perspectives, published weekly, with contributors writing from Argentina, Germany, Vietnam and the UK.

“There's joy in going looking for images I don't usually notice.”

Read weekly poetry

KörperRaum

Poems in response to the Venice Biennale 2026. Movement and observation of individual pavilions, exploring how material shapes experience. Featured by the Timor-Leste Pavilion and Talwar Gallery.

“Thank you for your beautiful poem.” – Timor-Leste Pavilion

Sneak peek

Letters to Places

Place-rooted essays and poems from Anna’s personal Substack, including a letter to a temporary home in Việt Nam.

“I remain an observer, a welcome guest even, but I cannot blend in.”

Read Xin Chào Sài Gòn