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Born in Kansas,
Ann
Applegarth grew up in Clovis, New Mexico, attended high school in Terrell,
Texas, and lived in Houston,
Fort Knox,
Artesia, Roswell, Albuquerque,
and Eugene (Oregon)
before returning to her favorite town – Roswell.
A 1990 honors graduate of the University
of Oregon, Ann also attended
the University
of New Mexico,
where she won a 1980 Academy of American Poets prize.
Her poet’s life experience credentials
include flying high (literally - in airplanes from Piper Cubs to 757s,
helicopters, hot-air balloons, and the Goodyear Blimp) and working at a
variety
of jobs - lifeguard, secretary, janitor, model, teacher, newspaper
carrier,
math manuscript typist, book reviewer, babysitter, horse stall mucker,
and
proofreader (ed. note: another kind of mucking out) for the Northwest
Review and other publications.
Ann’s poems have appeared in Conceptions Southwest,
Sin
Fronteras,
South Valley Ink, St. Anthony Messenger, West
Wind Review, Bellowing Ark,
Christianity & Literature, Denali, Cross
Timbers Review, among other publications, and have been
anthologized in The Hungry
Poets' Cookbook and Shadow and Light:
Literature and the Life of Faith.
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