Anne McCrary Sullivan

Poet, naturalist, writer and teacher, Anne McCrary Sullivan (www.annemccrarysullivan.com) is most at home outdoors. In recent years, her primary focus has been on the wilds of deep south Florida, particularly the Everglades, where she is a wilderness paddler.

She grew up on Wrightsville Sound in southeastern North Carolina where her marine biologist mother took her almost daily into wilderness – both the watery wilderness of the marshlands and vast expanses of pine forest. “These early experiences marked me forever. I am always trying to get back to the wild.”

She spent over a decade teaching high school English and creative writing, then fifteen years teaching at the university level. She is the mother of two sons and GranAnne to four grandchildren.

She has an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and has published poems in many literary and academic journals including the Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Cold Mountain Review, Cave Wall and Harvard Educational Review.

A practitioner of poetic Inquiry, she believes in the power of poetry and the arts to focus attention, heighten a sense of connection with the natural world, and invite empathy in the social world.

She has traveled widely in Europe, Central America and Africa, and spent a Fulbright year in Calabar, Nigeria. She speaks French and Spanish.