Anne Marie Wells (She | They) is an award-winning and Pushcart-nominated poet, playwright, memoirist, and oral storyteller.
Wells
Anne Marie
Poetry
She is the author of Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and the 2023 winner of the Cinnamon Press Chapbook Contest for her collection, Mother, (v). She won the 2023 Maryland Writers Association Poetry Contest, the 2023 Jackson Hole Poetry Box Contest, 2023 DC Public Library Haiku Contest, was long-listed for the International Erbacce Prize in Poetry, and was short-listed for the inaugural Emma Howell Rising Poet Award. She was the winner of the 2021 Crow House Press Poetry Competition, earned the 2021 Peter K. Hixson Memorial award in poetry presented by Writer's Relief, and was a 2021 Wyoming Woman of Influence nominee in the arts category for amplifying the voices of the LGBTQ and disabled communities through her writing. She received the 2020 Milestone Award presented by Wyoming Writers, Inc., and the 2020 Rising Star Award presented by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. She is a certified Listener Poet and freelance editor and creative writing instructor.
Why do you write?
"I write to add to our shared sense of humanity, hopefully creating a more empathetic, more peaceful, and more loving world."
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—Anne Marie Wells