Anne began studying Tai Chi decades ago and received her first teaching certification in 2005. After a number of years as a student and then Senior Trainer with the Tai Chi for Health Institute, she helped found Tai Chi Vermont, a non-profit dedicated to training and mentoring tai chi instructors around the state. She currently teaches Fall Prevention Tai Chi, Yang 24 forms, Yang Cane style, and Sun 73 forms, and is an Authorized Trainer with Tai Chi Vermont (training instructors).
Anne is a foodie. She and her partner Jim grow a wide variety of vegetables plus raspberries and cherries and enjoy home cooked meals.
In addition, Anne is a writer, currently working on a novel–“Stolen in Place.” It’s set in Appalachia, where Anne once lived, and follows the experience of a mid-30’s woman who takes a controversial in flood control but unexpectedly finds herself drawn to making highly unusual quilts. She becomes world-famous but is always devoted to the corner of the world where the landscape first inspired her art.
Her novel, “Her Last Cookbook,” is forthcoming from High Frequency Press in the fall of 2027.
Past publications include books and articles on food and culture, written when Anne was teaching at The Ohio State University-Marion. Books from that preoccupation include Recipes for Reading–about community cookbooks, Reel Food (food and films), and Introduction to African American Foodways. In addition she wrote many articles, appearing in journals such as The Journal of Popular Culture, Gastronomica, and others.
Anne has written a few personal essays and quite a lot of poetry. Her chapbooks number three: Poems for Tai Chi Players, The Space Between Us, and Getting it Down on Paper (this last one a collaboration with Pam Ahlen). Many individual poems have been published by such literary journals as Gemini, Rattle, The Light, Naugatuck River Review, Orchard Street Press, etc.