Author of American Map Anne-Marie Oomen

Anne-Marie Oomen (born 06 October) is author of An American Map, a new collection of essays; two memoirs inspired by farm life, Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields (both Michigan Notable Books from Wayne State University Press); as well as a collection of poetry, Uncoded Woman (Milkweed Editions). She is also represented in two chapbooks of poetry, Seasons of the Sleeping Bear and Moniker (with Ray Nargis), and New Poems of the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry. She has written and produced several plays including the award-winning Northern Belles, as well as Wives of an American King. She edited Looking Over My Shoulder: Reflections on the Twentieth Century, an anthology of seniors’ essays funded by Michigan Humanities Council. She serves as instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy where she is faculty editor for the Interlochen Review, and instructor for the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing at Pine Manor College, MA. She and her husband, David Early, have built their own home in Empire, Michigan where they live with a large cat named Walt Whitman.

Anne-Marie's interview and reading with Aaron Stander on Interlochen Public Radio