Annie is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author. She’s the author of The Extra, The Other, and The Spare (The Outsiders Sequence), and You Have to Let Them Bleed.
You Have to Let Them Bleed
2/17/2025
The Other
The Outsiders Sequence #2
6/9/2026
The Spare
The Outsiders Sequence #3
3/9/2027
Category Archives: Writing
Something in the Attic
I’m still celebrating National Poetry Month by reprinting a few of my published poems here. It’s a great way for me to share more of my work for free, and who doesn’t need new poems in their life? “Something in … Continue reading
Cleaning out the Exhaust Vent
I’m continuing my celebration of National Poetry Month by posting a poem here each week. My sonnet “Cleaning out the Exhaust Vent” won a local poetry contest and was subsequently published in the winners’ anthology Versifico. For a while it was … Continue reading
Rocking
The view out my office window keeps getting greener and greener, and I can’t get enough. (Neither can my cats, who very much enjoy the influx of food watching energetic birds and squirrels.) There really is something about the new … Continue reading
Dragging the Waters
Hello, chicks and chickadees. Spring is springing here, and I’m grateful for the new green. I’m so eager I’ve even bought a few kitchen herb plants, which is a hilariously optimistic endeavor if you know how bad I am at … Continue reading
Strange Needs, An Honor to Be Nominated, and the Meaning of Retreat
It’s been a little while since I’ve checked in here, because sometimes life grabs your planner and runs away giggling. That and, as I’m sure some of my old regulars know, writing for LitReactor about twice a month and Writer … Continue reading
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