Ann Teplick

For the last twenty-five years, Ann has written extensively with teens in hospitals, psychiatric units, juvenile detention centers, public schools, and arts non-profits. This experience continues to inform and inspire her work.

She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Her writing has appeared in Birdbrains—A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds; Tahoma Literary Review; Raven Chronicles; Crab Creek Review; The Louisville Review; Hunger Mountain; Signed, Sealed, Delivered—The Motown Poetry Review; 4Culture’s Poetry on the Buses, Spartan; Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology, and others. Her plays have been showcased in Washington, Oregon, and Nova Scotia.

Ann has participated in Washington State’s Artist Trust EDGE Personal Development Program for Writers; the Washington State Arts Commission’s Teaching Artist Training Lab, and was the poetry curator and workshop facilitator for The Incredible Intensity of Just Being Human, De-stigmatizing Mental Illness – an art exhibit at Seattle City Hall, Highline College, and in Issaquah, WA.

She is a recipient of artist residencies at Hedgebrook and The Helen R. Whiteley Center.

She’s a Jack Straw writer alumna, and has received funding for creative projects from Artist Trust, 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

When she’s not writing, she’s whistling, listening to Yo Yo Ma, browsing through garden stores for the next cilantro, and experimenting with printmaking and abstract collage.