Anne grew up in Southern California, graduated with a degree in History from U.C. Berkeley, moved to Colorado for a M.A. in History, then to Seattle for her MLS. She also has a diploma in Irish Studies from the National University of Ireland in Galway. Anne's first novel, A Short Time in Luxembourg (Gardenia Press) was published in 2004. Her short stories have appeared in The Belletrist Review, Blue Earth Review, Matter: A Journal of Art and Literature, WOW Anthology, Dublin Quarterly Review, and False Faces: RMFW 2018 Anthology. "That Donnelly Crowd" which appeared in False Faces is included in 2019 Best American Mystery Stories.  Most recent: "Rare Earths" in Chiarosuro: An Anthology of Virtue and Vice (NCW 2021). Her cozy mystery, Shards of Fine Diamonds, won an honorable mention from the Nero Wolfe Society/Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine 1922 Black Orchid Novella contest. 

"Where's the Story?  Each time I set out to write a short story or work on a novel (or, for that matter, read a short story or novel), I ask myself--Where is the Story?  I love telling stories...just telling stories."

Anne's nonfiction includes Foreign Investment in the American and Canadian West 1870-1914. She particularly enjoys researching and reading the 19th writer, Maria Edgeworth. When she's not writing, Anne and her husband enjoy travelling, hiking, seeking out and attending national and international book festivals, book stores, coffee shops, and breweries. 

Summer Reads that surprised and delighted:

• Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam 
• Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper  by Phaedra Patrick
• Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
• Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
• Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Check out Anne's profile in Downtown Fort Collins Creative District 

Autumn reads resulting from a sudden Shakespeare obsession: 

• Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint by Lee Durkee
• Shakespeare was a Woman by Elizabeth Winkler
• Shakespeare is Hard But So is Life by Finn O'Toole
• License to Quill by Jacopo Della Quercia​

Recently, I enjoyed Brendan Slocomb, author of Violin Conspiracy, at Fort Collins Reads annual event. Great speaker! 

Anne is a member of Sisters in Crime, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Writing Heights Writers Association.

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