Skye Anicca

Skye Anicca

With two young children and a busy class and work schedule, Professor Arthur N. Collins and Marion B. Collins Scholarship recipient, Sky Anicca, is grateful for the assistance her scholarship provides. Anicca is hard at work on her Ph.D. in English and plans to complete her degree in 2020.

When she is not caring for her children, she is either teaching literature and creative writing classes on campus or working on her own writing. Anicca is currently working on a short story collection and a novel. After completing her studies at UAlbany, she hopes to find a position as a professor and teach in the Southwest US, near where she grew up in Arizona.

Anicca is honing her craft in her program and enjoying her time at UAlbany. Her favorite class is a fiction workshop taught by Edward Schwarzchild and her favorite place on campus is her office in the Humanities Building – or any quiet place she can hide away and become absorbed in her writing.