Fire

About the Book

My memoir, Fire, is my journey of self-definition and can be best summarized in words of the poet and writer Audre Lorde: “If I didn’t define myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” My struggle for self-definition was not optional either. If I had not faced who I was and acted on it, I could never have harnessed my creative fire and become the woman, storyteller, and poet that I am.

About the Author

Anne is originally from Chicago; she and her husband moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983. She has a BA from De Paul University and MFA from San Francisco State University. Some of her poems have been published in Corale, Alchemy, and the Santa Clara Review, among other journals. When she is not writing, she enjoys bird watching, visiting her grandchildren in southern California. This is her first book.