Anita Mumm is a writer and developmental editor based in Salida, Colorado. At her editorial firm, Mumm’s the Word, she supports first-time novelists and bestsellers alike. Her clients have earned top spots on The New York Times bestseller list and received acclaim from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, and others. Previously, she handled submissions and foreign rights at Nelson Literary Agency. She has more than two decades of teaching experience at colleges, writing workshops, and retreats across the country. Currently, she teaches writing in correctional facilities as an adjunct English professor in the Adams State University Prison Education Program and for the nonprofit Unbound Authors. Her writing focuses on the natural world and has appeared in Twenty Bellows and Colorado Central Magazine, and the anthology The Alma Journal, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. In 2023, she was The Colorado Sun’s inaugural SunLit Writer-in-Residence. She received her MFA from Western Colorado University.
