Ann Aubrey

Writing




Journalism • Books • Technical • Fiction


“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ann offers 20 years of experience in writing, as a novelist, journalist, memoir writer, technical writer, medical writer, and ghostwriter.

Journalism


For ten years, Ann served as Editor and Associate Editor of The Southern Cross, the Catholic newspaper of San Diego. During those years, she honed her skills in interviewing, writing for knowledge, and editing. The decade at the paper garnered her numerous top journalism awards from both local and national press organizations. Samples of her articles can be found here:
  • Thomas Awiapo, Catholic Relief Services representative from Ghana, West Africa, found faith through food.
  • Steve Breen, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist from San Diego, views life through prism of faith.
  • DaVinci Code drivel cannot stand against simple fact checks.
  • To Rome for a Friend: Dr. Anita Figueredo attends the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
  • Child Domestic Labor in India: Children are unseen, unheard, unreached.
  • Taybeh, last all-Christian town in West Bank, Israel, continues to thrive, for now.
  • One year after quake, Pakistanis continue on road to recovery with Catholic Relief Services.
  • Philanthropists open eye clinic in India.
In addition to her work with The Southern Cross, Ann has written freelance articles for a variety of magazines and news services. Two of her award-winning articles can be read here:
Ann’s article on the Holy Innocents Hospital in Uganda can be found at the University of San Diego Web magazine, “Inside USD,” at http://www.sandiego.edu/insideusd/?p=5589.

Books


Ann has co-authored two books for the computer market:

Adobe Acrobat v2.1: Adobe by Example, published by MIS Press
  • Fractal Design Dabbler 2, published by Charles River Media




Assessment/Test Writing


Ann creates assessments and tests for a variety of publishers, among them St. Mary's Press, providing test question banks as well as unit tests and quizzes. She is adept at culling the important points from textbooks and creating assessments that measure not only a student's ability to learn by rote, but also to incorporate concepts and relationships into the thought process.

Technical Writing


For 20 years, simultaneous with her career in journalism, Ann has worked as a freelance technical writer, primarily in the computer industry, but also writing for the medical and science fields when the opportunity arises. Among her dozens of clients are:
Sony USA
Intuit Corporation
University of San Diego
Fujitsu Systems of America
SAIC Technologies
Woods Hole Group

Fiction


Ann’s first love is fiction. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction Writing at the University of Oregon and has been writing fiction ever since. Her first love is short stories, but she has been making efforts at novel writing, as well as with scriptwriting. Excerpts of her writing can be read here: