Ann Everett lived in the farm home built by her grandfather until age twelve and then in an apartment behind the pre-dial phone office her mother managed in Hope, Kansas. Her lifelong value of nature, music, traditions, community and family was nurtured by her early environment and the people who loved her.

     Ann has worked as a Youth Director in Savannah, GA, program coordinator at the Christian College of Georgia, a real estate agent, a substitute teacher, church organist since age 12 and choir director.

     Volunteerism and women’s/children’s issues are her first love. She worked nine-months gratis during the formation of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging, worked on a mental health crisis line, coordinated the Athens Voluntary Action Center and an emergency food bank, gave many school presentations for the Kansas Authors Club and the Herington Tri-County Arts Association, was a Central Kansas Domestic Violence Association volunteer, and gave countless hours in offices for the Kansas Authors Club and United Methodist Women. Ann cofounded the Family Resource Exchange, a welfare-to-work program, in Herington, Kansas. Ann was Herington Citizen of the Year in 2000.

The door to Ann’s home was always open to children (most outside the foster care system), her Mother, dogs, cats and a half bob cat.

Ms. Everett lives in Haysville, Kansas with her husband, Bob, and a beagle named Jack. She loves travel, painting, bridge, KAC and Pen Women. Her travels have taken her to Europe, the Middle East, Caribbean, five Canadian Provinces and forty-four of the U.S. states. She has previously published the book EMOTIONAL CHOICE: CAREGIVERS SURVIVING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. Ann has had her poems and short stories published in literary magazines, anthologies, and in the four WOMEN OF THE PLAINS poetry books.