Growing up, my mother told me my name was Anna-Catherine, she insisted on people calling me by my full name. I spent a lifetime correcting people to say both words when using my name. It’s a mouthful. Family and close friends shortened it to AC.

Years later I took a look at my birth certificate and right there it says, first name, Anna, middle name, Catherine.

So legally it’s been Anna all this time. But my passport says Annacatherine and my drivers license says A (because AnnaCatherine was too long) so now I don’t know. Anna’s a lot easier, but being easy is not something anyone would say about me. Call me what you will. For the purposes of this page it’s writer, and my writer name is AC.

My experience comes from a life well lived. Full of creative fun and adventures, from trying life on in many different ways and now the way I like is kind of quiet, reflective, led more by the seasons than my desire for fortune and glory. 

And I enjoy writing stories. Since I started writing in 2016 I have three complete novels, in various states of revision. Labor Days is a twisty dark whodunnit set in the 1950’s and explores the ideas of how great America was for women at the time. I wrote Election Days while I was in seminary school, it’s about cults, and bored housewives and it’s got some spice and some murderous intrigue. The third one is set in the Mississippi Delta in 1953 where my mother grew up. It needs a lot of work, but it was really fun to write.

I grew up in Singapore and Queens while spending summers at Christian sleepaway camp in Mississippi. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, two teenage sons and our poodle Bubble.