Ann Benson

Acclaimed craft designer Ann Benson is the author/creator of many books on beading, needlepoint, embroidery, looming and crochet. Ann is widely recognized as the world’s leading expert on crocheting with beads, with millions of views on her self-produced video for mastering tubular bead crochet. As the producer/writer/videographer/animator/narrator of dozens of additional YouTube videos, Ann Benson's YouTube channel is the go-to source for clear and thorough craft instruction, with content designed to support the techniques taught in her books. She has developed and now manufactures a simple beading loom for small jewelry that requires no warp finishing.

Ms. Benson is also the author of four Random House/Delacorte Press medieval history novels: “The Plague Tales", “The Burning Road”, “The Physician’s Tale” (The Plague Trilogy), and “Thief of Souls,” as well as her fifth novel “Ambrosia,” set in post-9/11 New York.