Writer, editor, person who makes cakes.*

*Also a teacher and a capitalist drone, but around here we like to follow the rule of three and the cakes insisted on staying.

Hi! I’m Anne – a teacher, writer, and editor living in northwest Washington. My first memoir, Navel Gazing, was published in the UK in 2013 by Faber&Faber, and I’m currently in the last revision stages on my second.

My beats are primarily: relationships (especially heartbreak/healing), body image, and mental health – if writing about it requires radical vulnerability, I’m probably game. You can read some of my work via the links on my portfolio.

When I’m not writing essays and books or working at my day job as a magazine editor, I can usually be found (and often witnessed, on Instagram) trying to figure out how to be a homeowner/gardener; playing/negotiating with my preschooler; knitting/crocheting/embroidering/otherwise trying to escape my overloaded brain for a brief moment; and baking/cooking some delicious foods and some less-delicious failures.

Care to get more personal than that? Buy the book! And/or keep reading.

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What’s in a name: Those of you who studied the Salem witch trials in school may have read a little Arthur Miller play called The Crucible, which features an especially hideous character named Goody Ann Putnam. If you haven’t read the play, I recommend it, as it’s brilliant – it also may help certain confused (and sometimes snarky) folk understand why I added the ‘H’ to my name. Four years of middle school classmates addressing me as ‘Goody Putnam’ was plenty; it was time for a change.

Likes: Animals, baking, seeing movies at the theater (that’s a serious indulgence these days, especially if you’re a $15-popcorn junkie like me!)

Dislikes: Severe allergy to animals, inability to eat all the baked goods without consequences, needing my glasses to see a subtitled film/read on-screen letters etc.

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To read my more quotidian ramblings, head over to my Substack.