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 10 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.
- ‘Invisible Children’ program answers call to help people in war-torn Uganda
- Doctor says pain care refutes case for euthanasia.
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
She is currently finishing a book about microelectronics use in military weapons.
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
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:
- Rockslide -- A Western short story
- Abduction-- Excerpt from a mystery
- Why Doesn’t the Mockingbird Sing? -- Sci-fi short story
- Earth Changes -- Short story