Her research asks how poems circulate through time and space and travel among persons. She is especially interested in genre, material practices, and ephemerality in 20th century U.S.-based poetry, as explored through small press publishing. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include modern and contemporary literature, creative writing, and textual production/bookmaking.

She is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Bearings (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press 2024), as well as the editor of Women in Independent Publishing (University of New Mexico Press, 2024) and the co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer & Clark Coolidge (University of New Mexico Press, 2022). Her scholarly articles, interviews, short stories, and poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Annulet, Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, Post45, Textual Practice, and Women’s Studies.

Anderson has B.A. in English and fundamentals: issues and texts from the University of Chicago, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. From 2016 to 2019, she held a post-doctoral fellowship through the Tsinghua-Michigan Society of Fellows and taught at Tsinghua University.