Anna Walsh

Known for the Texas Rose Festival, this city offers more to enjoy, including a delightful dining scene.

Anna Walsh is the director of editorial operations at Texas Monthly, overseeing workflows and projects across all platforms. She moved to Austin in 2019 and shortly thereafter joined TM as its managing editor. She previously worked in the Washington Post’s Opinions department as a multiplatform editor; at the Baltimore City Paper as the copy editor, food and drink editor, and, later, managing editor; and at the York Dispatch as a sports copy editor.

When’s the last time I screamed? Not cheered, or squealed with excitement, but full-on, empty-your-lungs, bloody-murder screamed. The question popped into my head as I stumbled, giggling, off the Air Maxx ride at the State Fair of Texas. I’m still not sure—certainly I had screamed at some point pre-pandemic—but of all the stimuli of the state fair, I was mainly struck by the fact that, for $7 per person, I’d finally gotten the chance to yell my head off. And after the past nineteen months, could…

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