Writing

Publications and Commissioned Work

  • “On Efficacy and the Institution,” commissioned by the National Performance Network (July 2025)
  • “on dignity and fantasy,” self-published and circulated for free online (original post here; web version here) (June 2022)
  • “Come On, Silver,” Best American Short Stories 2018, eds. Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor (October 2018)
  • “The Tender Part,” poetry, commissioned by and created in collaboration with dance-maker Michaela Cannon, performed at Tulane University’s Dixon Hall (February 2018)
  • “field guide to why didn’t she leave,” self-published and circulated for free online (January 2018)
  • “Come On, Silver,” fiction, Tin House (Summer 2017)
  • “Teuthida,” fiction, Fairy Tale Review (Spring 2017)
  • “Fred, Darling,” nonfiction, Ninth Letter (Fall/Winter 2016); Pushcart nominee
  • “The Guts of Southern Louisiana,” nonfiction, Slate (September 2016)
  • Dickbeer, novella, Day One / Kindle Single (January 2016)
  • “New Hampshire,” Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, descant (Fall 2015)
  • Selected blog posts (“Yes It Could Be Worse,” “Gutting Houses,” “Broken City”) in Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans after Katrina, edited by Cynthia Joyce and published by UNO Press (August 2015)
  • “Yes It Could Be Worse,” nonfiction, Gravy: A Quarterly from the Southern Foodways Alliance (Summer 2015)
  • “On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence,” nonfiction, VIDA (April 26, 2015)
  • “Rapture,” fiction, Prairie Schooner (Spring 2015); listed in Best American Short Stories 2016 Distinguished Stories; available online for NYC subway riders courtesy of the New York Public Library’s digital collection/Subway Readers
  • “Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, Object #35030,” poem, The Atlas Review (Spring 2015)
  • “Hold Your Breath: Refusal to Report Sexual Violence isn’t Just About Stigma,” nonfiction, Antigravity (January 2015)

Press

Recorded Readings

Editor Life

Ann has edited professionally since 2005 in a variety of contexts, including literary fiction, nonfiction, and journalism. She edited River Teeth from 2011-2021 (issues 13.1-23.1) and has been senior editor of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities quarterly magazine 64 Parishes (formerly Louisiana Cultural Vistas) since 2016 (issue 16.4 onward). She is known for her close and compassionate work with authors on line edits, substantive edits, and structural edits. The finished work is often recognized for excellence by the broader literary publishing and journalism community.

For River Teeth –

  • 2 Pushcart prizes
  • 4 works reprinted in Best American Essays, with 40 long-listed as “notable”
  • 1 “notable” for Best American Science and Nature Writing
  • 1 “notable” for Best American Nonrequired Reading

For 64 Parishes –

Press Club of New Orleans: Nominations of the top three published pieces in a given year in the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area

  • Best Magazine: 5 nominations, 3 first-place awards
  • Best Environmental/Science Reporting: 2 nominations
  • Best Government/Political Reporting: 1 nomination, 1 first-place award
  • Best Column: 5 nominations
  • Best Critical Review: 8 nominations, 4 first-place awards
  • Best Lifestyle Reporting: 4 nominations, 3 first-place awards
  • Best Feature Reporting: 5 nominations, 3 first-place awards
  • Best Light Feature Reporting: 1 nomination
  • Best Portrait Photography (with essay): 1 nomination, 1 first-place award
  • Best Multi-Photo Feature (with essay): 3 nominations, 1 first-place award
  • Best Feature Photography (with essay): 1 nomination, 1 first-place award

Society of Professional Journalists (Southeastern Division)

  • Feature Writing: 2 nominations, 2 first-place awards
  • Best of Division: Magazines: 2 nominations, 2 first-place awards
  • Sigma Delta Chi Award and Bronze Medallion: 1 award
  • Green Eyeshades, for the best piece of journalism across all formats in the region: 1 award