Publications

A Walk Among Lepers - Memoir

California Writers Club Literary Review, 2021

The CWC Literary Review is a statewide anthology of memoir, prose, and poetry. Out of 300 entries throughout California, Ann's memoir, "A Walk Among Lepers," was one of thirty chosen for publication.

A Walk Among Lepers - Memoir

Pathway to the Heart , Writers of Kern Anthology, 2021

The story of a boarding school field trip to the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital in Pakistan. First place - 2018 Writers of Kern Fall Competition.

(In)Visible Memoirs: Vol 1: I Speak from My Palms, Memoir Journal

"Ann Cook" is a writer and award-winning graphic designer. Vignettes from her memoir, Happy Acres Trailer Park, appear in Memoir Journal’s anthology, (In)Visible Memoirs: I Speak From My Palms and (In)Visible Memoirs: Lionhearted. Ann enjoys writing about everything from childhood trailer-park escapades in Central California to boarding-school adventures in the Himalayas of Pakistan. Currently, she lives in the Kern River Valley with her husband, fine artist David Cook.”

“Dominant literary discourse plays favorites. It holds space for a few at the expense of the many, privileging certain voices while silencing others. The impact of this practice is profound and dangerous invisibility, an invisibility that seeps through our society, cloaking most in silence so that a handful of voices can ring out center stage.

What happens if everyone speaks for themselves? What happens if space is held for anyone who wants to stand and tell their story, if the mic is passed around?

The work of (In)Visible Memoirs Project is to push back, to cram a foot in dominant literary discourse’s front door and invite many voices from the periphery to share their stories as would like to be heard. What follows in the pages of this book are pieces from every workshop we ran in 2012, selected by the instructors and myself to represent the breadth and importance of this space. No further introduction is needed. They speak for themselves.”

Rachel Reynolds, Anthology Editor

(In)Visible Memoirs: Vol 2: Lionhearted, Memoir Journal

Volume 2 contains more misadventures from Happy Acres Trailer Park. Ann writes about stealing Barbies from a local department store. Her humorous stories include trading a dollar for a diamond solitaire ring, almost drowning in the public swimming pool, and her infatuation with David Cassidy and The Partridge Family. She gets cat-eye glasses and discovers she's an artist, thanks to a red-headed girl named Ethel.