One night when Anna was nine, she dreamt she wrote a book, and she thought that was pretty cool. Perhaps she should have known then that she wanted to be a writer, but other adventures called along the way.
Anna has called many different places home—thirty addresses, fifteen towns, ten states, three countries. By the time she finished high school, she’d attended fourteen schools. No matter where she was, she could often be found sneaking away to read.
After studying geology in college, Anna worked on a farm in Wisconsin, served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, melted knockoff Mars rocks in a laboratory in Massachusetts, led a homeschooling group in an off-the-grid schoolhouse in the Pacific Northwest, taught French to engineering students in Missouri, conducted biogeochemistry fieldwork in the Alaskan tundra, and performed high-energy booktalks at schools across southern Oregon.
Today, Anna works at her local library in Vermont and writes middle-grade fiction and humorous informational picture books.