About the Author

Anne-Marie Oomen writes haunting lyrical stories of farm, fields and family. With rural culture as its heart, her first nonfiction collection, Pulling Down the Barn, a Michigan Notable Book, is now in its second printing. House of Fields (Wayne State University Press) and Un-coded Woman, (Milkweed Editions); two chapbooks of poetry, Seasons of the Sleeping Bear, and Moniker (with Ray Nargis) all offer insight into country living at its quirkiest and most tender. Her poetry is also represented in New Poems of the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry. She edited Looking Over My Shoulder: Reflections on the Twentieth Century, an anthology of seniors' essays funded by Michigan Humanities Council; has written and produced several plays including the award-winning Northern Belles, as well as Wives of An American King based on the James Jesse Strang story. She serves as Chair of Creative Writing at Interlochen Arts Academy where she is faculty editor for the Interlochen Review. She is also nonfiction instructor for the Solstice Writers Conference of Pine Manor College, MA. She and her husband have built their own home in Empire, Michigan where they live with a large cat named Walt Whitman.

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Anne-Marie Oomen
Po Box 185
9000 W Cohodas
Empire, MI 49630
(231)326-5775
oomenam@interlochen.org