Grace Anderson is a writer, editor, and curator devoted to Blackness, queerness, nature, spirituality, resource redistribution, and freedom. She is is grounded and guided by Walida Imarisha’s visionary fiction, Christina Sharpe’s wake work, bell hook’s revolutionary love, and tasha’s reminder to take care. She approaches her work with curiosity, limitlessness, and an unflinching orientation toward abundance and collective liberation. 

She is currently enrolled in a MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) at The New School. In 2023, she founded the The Lupine Collaborative(TLC), a literary organization for Black women, transgender, and non-binary climate, nature, and environmental writers. Lupine resources writers through writing retreats, a writer-in-residence program, grants, and a partnership with the publisher, Milkweed Editions.

Prior to turning her full attention to writing, Grace consulted environmental nonprofit and foundations on their grantmaking practices. Her clients included the Doris Duke Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The National Wildlife Federation’s Women in Conservation, The North Face’s Explorer Fund, and Patagonia. She co-led People of the Global Majority in the Outdoors, Nature, and Environment, the largest gathering of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the environmental sector. As the director of Operations & Strategic Partnerships, Grace created multiple funds including the Black Joy Fund, raising and rapidly distributing $30,000 in the summer of 2020, and the Queer and Trans People of Color Fund.

In 2021, Grace was awarded an 18-month fellowship by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Pisces Foundation. The funding freed up her time and brain space to design the framework for what is now The Lupine Collaborative. In 2024, she became a fellow at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to further their Shifting Systems Initiatives and Climate Philanthropy with thought partnership, organizing, and writing.

Grace served on the boards of GirlVentures, Cycles of Change, and The Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity at the University of California at Berkeley. She has been featured by The National Wildlife Federation, The Headlands Institute, Save The Redwoods League, and Bicycling Magazine, amongst others. 

She is an alum of the Storyknife Writers Retreat, Philoxenia Black Writers Retreat, and Rockland Residency’s Inaugural Black Artist Cohort, and Seeds of Solidarity: A Retreat for Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color Climate Writers.