Anna is a full-time writer and speaker. Her work has been featured in Woman’s Day, Ladies Home Journal, The Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Today’s Parents and more.
Speaking to groups and connecting women to each other are two of Anna’s passions.
Anna writes about life with truth and humor, whether she is chronicling her inner monologue during an eyebrow threading session, or pondering faith, parenting, and loss.
Anna began writing the blog An Inch of Gray in 2008 to share funny stories of life and motherhood and to find an online community. After the sudden death of her 12-year-old son Jack in 2011, Anna chronicled her grief journey in real time for her readers in order to reveal what grief is really like and to find healing for herself.
Her memoir, New York Times Bestseller Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love was published by Convergent Books, a division of Penguin-Random House. Since its release, Rare Bird has brought comfort and healing to many hurting families as well as helped those who walk beside them know how to be there.
Anna loves connecting women to one another and helping make sense, in her own way, of this beautiful, hard, grace-filled life.
Anna now writes full time, featured in major print media outlets and online. Anna, her husband, Tim, daughter, Margaret, and young son Andrew live outside of Washington, DC.