Ann Fisher-Wirth grew up first in the U.S. Army and then in Berkeley, California.  She has lived in the South for more than twenty years; now, she considers both Mississippi and northern California to be home.  She is married to Peter Wirth.  Hers, his, and theirs, they have five grown children. 

A Professor of English, Ann teaches poetry workshops and seminars, and courses in environmental literature, at the University of Mississippi.  She also teaches yoga.  She has had Fulbrights to the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Uppsala University, Sweden.  In 2006 she will become president of the 1000-member international Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.  Her academic publications include a book, William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature, and numerous articles on American writers.

Ann is the author of Blue Window (Archer Books, 2003) and two chapbooks, The Trinket Poems (Wind) and Mississippi (online, Drunken Boat).  A new book of poems, Five Terraces, will appear from Wind Publications in September 2005.  Her work has received numerous awards, including a 2003 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the 2004 Rita Dove Poetry Award, the 2004 Poetry Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and two Poetry Fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission.  A chapbook, “Walking Wu Wei’s Scroll Le Grand Fleuve à perte de vue,” received Honorable Mention in the 2005 Center for Book Arts contest.