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 and (for her own curiosity and interest) a Certificate in Diamond retailing from GIA. 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. Anne had a long career as an academic librarian and a public library business librarian. She has worked in historic preservation, local and state arts, directed the Wyoming Newspaper Project, and once managed the Fort Collins Chamber Players, and most recently, the Fort Collins Book Festival.
2026 Summer Reads that surprised and delighted:
- Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton (I discovered my father's copy as we were moving house this spring. If you like reading autobiographies from another generation, this is a great book to read, especially if you have a Catholic upbringing! I couldn't put it down. Like living my father's big city/college youth.)
- The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman (1960). I truly enjoy fiction/mysteries written in earlier times. (I often pull out a Nero Wolfe book or story when nothing else appeals to me) This was a delightful mystery. I look forward to reading more of them. Written in the 1960s, her Mrs. Polifax ends up on a CIA mission. Reminded me of RLS Kidnapped, an adventure every time she turned around.
- All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle (2021). An immigrant story based in London...explores loneliness and loss with amazing humor and tenderness. I look forward to read more of Gayle's book.
- Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
- Helen by Maria Edgeworth (1834) I spent most of the early summer rereading Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, comparing the two authors. Helen is a "big house/marriage market" story on par with (probably) Austen's Emma. Edgeworth, however, tends to dig deeper into the culture and mores of the era than Jane Austen. I also reread Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Belinda, and Patronage (a political big house/marriage market). I never tire of reading novels from different eras--I feel like I right there in their age.
- How Not To Die Alone by Richard Roper
- 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
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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
Anne is a member of Sisters in Crime, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Writing Heights Writers Association.