Anya Krugovoy Silver (December 22, 1968 – August 6, 2018) was an American poet. She won a Guggenheim fellowship,^[1] and a Georgia Author of the Year Award.^[2]

Silver was born in 1968^[3] in Media, Pennsylvania, but raised in Swarthmore, and graduated from Haverford College,^[4] and Emory University.^[2] She then became a professor at Mercer University.^[5] Her work has appeared in The Christian Century, among other publications.^[6]

In 2004, Silver was pregnant and teaching at Mercer University when she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer. She gave birth to son Noah and had a mastectomy. The cancer remained, and her coping with it, along with her son and husband, intensified her poetry.

Silver died at age 49 in Macon, Georgia, on August 6, 2018.^[7]

• ''Scattered at Sea'', Penguin/Penguin Random House, ISBN 9780143126898^[8][9]
• The Ninety-Third Name of God, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780807136904, OCLC 695838872^[10]
• I watched you disappear, Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780807153048, OCLC 908740255
• From Nothing, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780807163467, OCLC 940795255^[11]
• Second bloom : poems, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. ISBN 9781532630071, OCLC 1001883912