Annee Lyons is an American writer living in London.
Annee writes fiction, essays, and creative non-fiction. Her work explores memory, grief, and intergenerational stories, seeking to uncover connections between personal and collective experience. Read some of her published work here.
Alongside her creative work, Annee is a creative strategist, copywriter, and editor, specializing in storytelling for social impact. She works as an in-house writer and editor at Tate & Clayburn, an editorial agency based in Brixton. She also co-founded Effective Creative, a collective making high-quality creative marketing and fundraising services accessible to small charities and non-profits. Her writing and filmmaking work has supported organizations including Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, Dogs Trust, The R&A Foundation, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and UNICEF, among others.
In film, Annee has written, directed, and edited documentary and narrative shorts. While studying at Georgetown University, she assisted on a documentary project about the descendants of enslaved people sold by Jesuit priests in 19th-century Maryland, as well as directed a short documentary about her grandparents which won awards on the US festival circuit. She produced and co-hosted two seasons of The Cinema Silo Podcast, a film criticism series.
Annee earned an MPhil in Ancient Greek and Roman History at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, studying numismatics and excavating in Greece, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia. She also earned an MA in Film & Screen Media from Birkbeck, University of London, where she studied feminist and psychoanalytic film theory as a Beinecke Scholar.