
Writer | Editor | Educator

Ann Ward is a writer, editor and teacher originally from Ontario, Canada. Her work has appeared in Lit Angels, Hot Pink, Pinwheel Journal, Peach Mag, No Tokens, Minola Review, Powder Keg and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Daniel & Merrily Glosband Fellowship in Poetry and the Delaney Fellowship in Fiction, and was a 2020 Massachusetts Cultural CouncilArtist Fellow in Fiction. Ann has an MFA in Fiction from UMass Amherst and teaches at Bard Microcollege Holyoke, a college for women whose education has been interrupted by pregnancy, parenting, and systemic issues.

"Sestina for Natasha Lyonne, 1998" — Poetry, Hot Pink Magazine, 2022

“We Will No Longer Be Taking Care of Ourselves” and “A Wild Hare” — Fiction, Lit Angels, 2024

“We’ll Try Again Tomorrow” — Poetry, Shabby Dollhouse Quaranzine, 2020

"Beneluxe" — Poetry, Pinwheel, 2019

"Fifteen Mouths and Two More" — Poetry, Powder Keg, 2016

“We See Things With Our Eyes and We Want Them” — Fiction, This Magazine, 2017

“Fever Colada” — Poetry, Peach Mag (Buffalo, September 2017)

"I can see their hands, the table, the condiments" — Poetry, Peach Mag, 2018