The life behind the stories.
Raised on Long Island, Anne grew up in a family where love and dysfunction comingled on a daily basis. She describes this as her experience of Ernest Hemingway’s statement that “The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood.” Hemingway felt that intense, often painful experiences shape a writer’s ability to observe, feel, and convey truth in their work. Still, Anne insists that her childhood “was probably better than most.”
After majoring in Journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anne pursued a career in corporate public relations and freelance writing. But her main aspiration was always to be an author, an accomplishment she was able to achieve only after decades of corporate work.
Stories in print.
A Medical Affair
Booktrope, 2013
After a terrifying life-threatening asthma attack induced by the fumes in her swanky new apartment, Heather Morrison falls for the handsome but very married doctor who saved her. Her “knight in shining armor” turns out to be less of a knight as time goes by and more of a heartbreak waiting to happen. As the saying goes, this is not what the doctor ordered. When the relationship ends, Heather’s life dramatically changes as she finds herself addicted to prescription pills she never needed and her future as a mother in question.
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
– Anaïs Nin
Anne has written for both consumer and trade magazines and has been a regular contributor to Martha’s Vineyard Magazine and Vineyard Style. Currently, she works part- time for her local newspaper, Saratoga TODAY.
