Ann Everett

Ann Everett lived in the farm home built by her grandfather until age twelve and then in an apartment behind the pre-dial phone office her mother managed in Hope, Kansas. Her lifelong value of nature, music, traditions, community and family was nurtured by her early environment and the people who loved her.

Ann has worked as a Youth Director in Savannah, GA, program coordinator at the Christian College of Georgia, a real estate agent, a substitute teacher, church organist since age 12 and choir director.

Volunteerism and women's/children's issues are her first love. She worked nine-months gratis during the formation of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging, worked on a mental health crisis line, coordinated the Athens Voluntary Action Center and an emergency food bank, gave many school presentations for the Kansas Authors Club and the Herington Tri-County Arts Association, was a Central Kansas Domestic Violence Association volunteer, and gave countless hours in offices for the Kansas Authors Club and United Methodist Women. Ann co-founded the Family Resource Exchange, a welfare-to-work program, in Herington, Kansas and was the 2000 Herington Citizen of the Year. Her volunteer work for CASA of Central Texas was a labor of love.

The door to Ann's home was always open to children (most outside the foster care system), her Mother, dogs, cats and a half bob cat.

Ms. Everett lives in Killeen, Texas with her husband Ken Hendrix. She loves travel, painting, bridge, Kansas Authors Club and The National Association of American Pen Women. Her travels have taken her to Europe, the Middle East, Caribbean, five Canadian Provinces, Mexico and forty-eight of the U.S. states.

Ms. Everett has published two books EMOTIONAL CHOICE: CAREGIVERS SURVIVING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE and BYLINES 'ROUND THE EYES, has had her poems and short stories published in literary magazines, anthologies, and in the four WOMEN OF THE PLAINS poetry books.