About Ann

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I am the author of the award-winning memoir, Confessions of a Do-Gooder Gone Bad, and a contributor to the HerStories Project anthology, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real About Motherhood. My debut YA novel, The Memory of Cotton, will be published in May 2022 by Propertius Press.

I write for Pittsburgh Parent Magazine, including a regular column about STEAM education.

My writing has appeared in publications nationwide

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including skirt! Magazine, Bicycle Times Magazine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and many others.

My articles received the Silver Award presented by the Parenting Media Association in 2017 and 2019 and my essays won the 1st Place Prize for Nonfiction in the 2015, 2016, and 2019 Pennwriters Writing Contests.

Pittsburgh Parent Magazine
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Bicycle Times Magazine cover
PMA 2016 Silver Award

Enjoy these other things about me

I’m a wife, mom, stepmom and dog mom. I love to run, cycle, hike, travel, and adventure outdoors.

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