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Ann Conway grew up in Rhode Island (then the most Catholic state and headquarters of the New England Mafia). She is a writer with an MFA from Seattle Pacific (creative nonfiction) and a sociologist (PhD from Brandeis) Later she lived in Maine for many years, situated in a beautiful river town and working in public health. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2016.
Ann writes creative nonfiction and poetry and has published in The Cortland Review, Maine Arts Magazine, Maine Times, Image Journal, Commonweal and other venues. Ann had an essay on the "Notable" list of Best Spiritual Writing and was a blogger on the Image web site imagejournal.org/tag/ann-conway/. Ann also won an essay competition for publication in Maine Arts Magazine and has been awarded a writing fellowship by The Collegeville Institute in Minnesota.
Everything Far Becomes Near, Ann’s chapbook of poems on hearing, deafness and silence, was issued by Irish publisher Finch and Fellow in October, 2019. Her essay, “Innocence,” is included in Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living the Truth of Your Life by Lesley Leyland Fields (2020).
Ann's subjects are often place, spirituality, disability, and the voiceless. She is working on a new book of poetic "commonplaces"-- observations which concern the lives of small towns and cities in Maine and the Pittsburgh area that are beset by population loss, changes in community life, and spiraling addiction. Ann also has long provided professional writing, editing, and research services at this site.
Ann Conway grew up in Rhode Island (then the most Catholic state and headquarters of the New England Mafia). She is a writer with an MFA from Seattle Pacific (creative nonfiction) and a sociologist (PhD from Brandeis) Later she lived in Maine for many years, situated in a beautiful river town and working in public health. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2016.
Ann writes creative nonfiction and poetry and has published in The Cortland Review, Maine Arts Magazine, Maine Times, Image Journal, Commonweal and other venues. Ann had an essay on the "Notable" list of Best Spiritual Writing and was a blogger on the Image web site imagejournal.org/tag/ann-conway/. Ann also won an essay competition for publication in Maine Arts Magazine and has been awarded a writing fellowship by The Collegeville Institute in Minnesota.
Everything Far Becomes Near, Ann’s chapbook of poems on hearing, deafness and silence, was issued by Irish publisher Finch and Fellow in October, 2019. Her essay, “Innocence,” is included in Your Story Matters: Finding, Writing, and Living the Truth of Your Life by Lesley Leyland Fields (2020).
Ann's subjects are often place, spirituality, disability, and the voiceless. She is working on a new book of poetic "commonplaces"-- observations which concern the lives of small towns and cities in Maine and the Pittsburgh area that are beset by population loss, changes in community life, and spiraling addiction. Ann also has long provided professional writing, editing, and research services at this site.