Annie is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author. Her debut collection, You Have to Let them Bleed, and her debut novella, The Extra, are both set for publication in 2025.
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Tag Archives: Poetry
The Lurking
This poem will be published in Collections VI, an anthology of the 2016 Merging Visions Exhibit by the Denton Poets’ Assembly and Visual Arts Society of Texas. I’m looking forward to seeing the art created to pair with it! The … Continue reading
The Hadal Zone
This poem was first published in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies’ 2014 prize anthology Encore. I hope you enjoy! The Hadal Zone We humans dabble in the waves lanced with sunlight, rarely swimming down to the layer known … Continue reading
Country Born
When I have a poem published somewhere, I like to repost it here after the rights revert back to me so you guys can read it easily. That’s the case today. “Country Born” is a little free verse poem that … Continue reading
Sonnet Building Step 5: “Final Dress”
[If sonnets just aren’t your cup of tea, check out the related prose discussion below.] Critique Sonneteers! At this point, you’ve done everything you can on your own to make your sonnet shine. The next step, if you’re up to … Continue reading
Sonnet Building Step 4: “Muscle Sculpting”
[Just here for the prose talk? Click here to skip down.] Hello sonneteers! How are you guys? Doing okay? Where is everybody in the process? Judging from both the crickets in the comments and a few of you that I’ve … Continue reading
