About Ann Marie

Ann Marie is a student of life. She has studied a variety of subjects in various schools, internships, and jobs, including religious studies at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, photography & painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and English at the University of Michigan. She graduated with Distinction from the University of Michigan in 2009 with her Bachelor's of Arts in English and minor in Native American Studies.

She also has experience in marketing, web design, graphic design, copywriting and editing, photo editing and manipulation, art gallery management, watercolor and acrylic painting, caligraphy, loomed and freehand Ojibwe beadwork, Anishinaabemowin (the Ojibwe language), real estate investing, costume design, motorcycle riding, tea brewing, smoothie making, cooking, poetry, and is a folk and classically trained pianist and vocalist. 

She grew up just outside of Lansing, Michigan. Currently, she lives with her husband and cat in Northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Top photo by Michael Mcpeak, 2007