ANN ZUCCARDY
Author | Speaker | Educator
ABOUT
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Originally from Connecticut. I have a home in Vermont, and an apartment near Baltimore where I work full time as a technical writer.
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I began writing and teaching around age 5.
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I have a B.A. in English, M.A. in English/Creative Writing, and I am currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts.
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I am the mother of an adult daughter who was born at home. Yes, by choice.
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I have worked both as a childbirth doula and in hospice care.
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I used to own an online bakery called Vermont Shortbread Company.
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I like to travel to obscure places that tourists tend to avoid. You're not likely to see me at a resort or on a cruise.
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I am closest to my vision of God when my hands are in dirt in my garden.
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I am an avid knitter.
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I've played the piano since I was 8.
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I started violin lessons at 60. I can play about 3 songs.
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I don't like maple syrup, the color pink, or Doritos.
In Between Spaces
Ann is proud to have her essay, "My Father's Feet" featured in In Between Spaces, Stillhouse Press’s first anthology which centers the experiences of thirty-three disabled poets, short-story writers, and essayists as they navigate the physical and emotional complexities of disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and mental illness. This timely collection of often-overlooked voices celebrates joy, freedom, and the power of agency, while at the same time confronting and challenging the stigmas and barriers, visible and invisible, that too often come to define life with a disability.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
