About Ann Aubrey Hanson
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” Doug Larson
It was a beautiful day in the life of Ann Aubrey Hanson when she was handed her first writing tool. Okay, it was a crayon and she wrote only a jumble of lines, straight and wavy, but she wrote. What she wrote, only she knew, but that she wrote, no one was in doubt.
As a high school student, she wrote for the school newspaper and submitted stories to creative writing contests. It was then that she began her lifelong habit of journaling. Since the age of 21, she has written a journal entry every year on her birthday (a small homage to Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape”). She earned her BA in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later her MA in English and MFA in Creative Writing -- Fiction from the University of Oregon.
Since graduating with her Masters degrees, she has earned her living solely as a writer: technical writer, journalist, writing instructor, freelance writer, ghostwriter, and fiction writer. From crayon to pencil to pen to typewriter and now to computer, she has covered the page with words, glorious words.
Raised as an Army brat, Ann has traveled the world since she was a child and has not lost the taste for new worlds, new cultures, or new friends. Given the opportunity, she is thrilled to hop on a plane or train, car, or bus, and set off on new adventures.