The Anais Nin Foundation promotes the appreciation of Anais Nin, a 20th century writer famous for her groundbreaking diary. Driven by self-analysis, the arts, love and travel, Nin's writing was ahead of its time and is now more relevant than ever. We are a non-profit organization that hosts events and periodically releases previously unseen material from Nin's life and vast body of work. Please join our mailing list to get the latest updates and news.
The Anais Nin Trust was created in 1975 to manage the literary estate of Anais Nin. The Trust is dedicated to preserving Anais Nin’s legacy through the promotion of Nin scholarship, productions, and publications.
The Trust and Foundation maintain copyrights over text, images, and recordings of or by Anais Nin. We also own the copyright for Henry Miller’s letters to Anais Nin and Ian Hugo’s engravings.
We appreciate and understand how inspirational Anais Nin is and has been for artists and writers. We are pleased her positive messages of self-expression and self-exploration still reverberate today. We do ask, however, that you not use any Anais Nin image or quote in your artwork or to promote your writing, writing workshops, or readings. Use of Anais Nin images and quotes should be cleared through us.
The art of Anais Nin cuts across the traditional literary categories. She combines poetic lyricism with an extended fable, blurring the distinction between poetry and prose. Her writings are presented to us both as separate, self-contained compositions and as part of a continuous work-in-progress; moreover they hover in that contemporary no-man’s land between autobiography and fiction.
-Philip K. Jason
While many writers see what is before their eyes, Anais Nin looks into the heart of what confronts her, dissolving barriers, allowing us to participate, through the alchemy of her words, into the depths of the things which surround us and in whose shallows most lives are spent.
-Wayne McEvilly
ANAIS NIN FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS
Steven Reigns, President
Steven Reigns has been a deep reader of Anaïs Nin’s work for 35 years and organized three of the largest Nin-related events in the past decade. He is a poet and was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Alongside over a dozen chapbooks, he has published the collections Inheritance and Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat. Reigns holds a BA in Creative Writing, a Master of Clinical Psychology, and is a sixteen-time recipient of The Los Angeles County’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ Artist in Residency Grant. He edited My Life is Poetry, showcasing his students’ work from the first-ever autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBT seniors. Reigns has lectured and taught writing workshops around the country to LGBT youth and people living with HIV. Currently he is touring The Gay Rub, an exhibition of rubbings from LGBT landmarks. His newest collection A Quilt for David was published by City Lights and is the product of over ten years of research regarding dentist David Acer’s life.
Tree Wright, secretary
Tree Wright has worked in the entertainment industry for over 30 years, ranging from touring with the Grateful Dead and other bands, to being associate producer of an Oscar-nominated documentary and a multi-season producer of the hit TV show Ancient Aliens. In between she produced conferences for the ecological non-profit Planetwork and released the album If I Showed You as a singer-songwriter. In 2007, Tree married the nephew of Rupert Pole, Anais Nin’s long-time companion and literary executor, and began archiving Anais’s books, photos and other materials, In 2012, Tree became the literary agent for the Anais Nin Trust, managing Anais Nin’s publishing and licensing rights worldwide. In 2018, Tree became the Secretary of the Anais Nin Foundation. Ms. Wright holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Belmont University in Nashville, TN.
COLBY DEVITT
Colby Devitt founded and helms Catch the Sun, a social media & digital marketing firm helping creative artists advance their careers by expanding their digital and storytelling capabilities and growing their online ecosystems. Her clients have won numerous prizes and accolades. In addition to serving on the board of the Anais Nin Foundation, Colby is a member of the Board of Directors of the LA River Arts, and a member of the Executive Committee of the West Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club. She is also an advisor to Multispecies Media, which focuses on human-wildlife relations in urban areas. Educated at Barnard College, Columbia University (BA) and Harvard University (MA), she has lectured on using social media for social good at USC Annenberg, NY Academy of Film, and Harvard.