About Ann

I create stories that resonate with readers seeking to know the world from a bone-deep, heart-true place.

A fifth generation Wyomingite, I love the wide horizons, dynamic skies, and sage-covered hills of this landscape, and they find their way into most of my writing. I am also a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, teacher, horsewoman, backpacker, and water-child

I believe my purpose on this earth is to hold all beings with compassion, gentleness, and strength, to seek awe and solace in wild places, and, through my art, to nurture a bedrock sense of belonging for myself and my readers.

My work has been published in Orion, Souvenir Lit Journal, Western Confluence Magazine, and the anthology Atlantic City: Voices from a Powerful Place. I have also been featured reading my work on Public Radio International’s Living on Earth program. I teach classes in creative thinking and writing for the University of Wyoming’s Honors College and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources.

I was born in Rawlins, Wyoming and raised in the Red Desert and the Wind River Mountains.

I earned my BA in English from the University of Wyoming and completed my MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) at the University of Idaho, where I studied with Kim Barnes, Mary Blew, and Robert Wrigley. While in graduate school, I served first as a reader and then as the nonfiction editor for the literary journal Fugue. The editorial experience exposed me to a multitude of essays by established and emerging writers and provided me with invaluable insight into the business-side of writing and publishing.

After I finished my degree, my husband and I chose to return to Wyoming in order to live in the place we love, surrounded by the family and friends we share it with.

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