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Author Bio & More
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Press Releases for My Other Body
Ann's Acknowledgments Page
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"From poetry, I learned freedom; from technical writing, discipline. Poetry
taught me to be true to my own vision, but technical writing taught me to fight
for what the reader needs." - Ann Pai
Ann Pai says: My first poem was printed when I was in fourth
grade. I don't remember a time when I didn't plan to write for a
living. I wouldn't recommend this narrow focus, however, to any
other seven-year-old.
I wrote for whatever publication would have me: student newpapers
and magazines and writing contests while I was in high school and
college, then small poetry and fiction journals afterward. I've read
poetry in a lot of fun places: Ann Arbor, Kansas City, Atlanta, Los
Angeles, and Brescia, Italy.
I still have a day job: I write software guides for college
administrators. In my life before that, I was a vagabond. I made my
way for a year in Italy as a live-in babysitter, translation
proofreader, and English tutor. I worked a lot of odd jobs, some
centered on writing, others decidedly not. And after I got my
graduate degree in city planning, I went to Russia for three months
and helped on the project for the first planned city there to be
based on free-enterprise principles.
Sunspot Press is the second business I've started. My first was a
city planning consultancy. I had no clue that the purpose of
business is to make money, so that didn't work out well for me.
Having learned this valuable lesson, I'm more thrilled than ever to
be, in my small way, part of an industry that I love.
taught me to be true to my own vision, but technical writing taught me to fight
for what the reader needs." - Ann Pai
Ann Pai says: My first poem was printed when I was in fourth
grade. I don't remember a time when I didn't plan to write for a
living. I wouldn't recommend this narrow focus, however, to any
other seven-year-old.
I wrote for whatever publication would have me: student newpapers
and magazines and writing contests while I was in high school and
college, then small poetry and fiction journals afterward. I've read
poetry in a lot of fun places: Ann Arbor, Kansas City, Atlanta, Los
Angeles, and Brescia, Italy.
I still have a day job: I write software guides for college
administrators. In my life before that, I was a vagabond. I made my
way for a year in Italy as a live-in babysitter, translation
proofreader, and English tutor. I worked a lot of odd jobs, some
centered on writing, others decidedly not. And after I got my
graduate degree in city planning, I went to Russia for three months
and helped on the project for the first planned city there to be
based on free-enterprise principles.
Sunspot Press is the second business I've started. My first was a
city planning consultancy. I had no clue that the purpose of
business is to make money, so that didn't work out well for me.
Having learned this valuable lesson, I'm more thrilled than ever to
be, in my small way, part of an industry that I love.
| My Other Body: a memoir of love, fat, life, and death by Ann Pai |