Ann Medlock

Ann Medlock is a novelist, a poet, a blogger, an editor, a speaker, an educator, and a social entrepreneur, in one constantly moving package. Wearing her social-entrepreneur hat, she's the Founder and Creative Director of the Giraffe Heroes Project, a nonprofit that gives the world stories of real people sticking their necks out for the common good. She's given talks on heroism all across the US, and in Singapore, Moscow, and Beijing. As a poet, she's published one collection and is working on the next. This is her first novel.

Her background includes editing Viet Nam Presse in Saigon, and teaching English in Japan and the Belgian Congo. She's written articles for Look, The New York Times, The Journal of Commerce, Editor & Publisher, Working Woman, Lear's, CoEvolution Quarterly, New Age Journal, and Education Week. She was editor-in-chief of the Children's Express news service in New York while doing ghost-writing and ad copy to pay her rent on Central Park West. The Giraffe Heroes curriculum she developed led the NEA to honor her as a pioneer in character education. She's done prize-winning commentaries on public radio, and she's been speechwriter to US political figures and to the Aga Khan.