Ann Bracken

Ann Bracken has authored three poetry collections, Once You’re Inside: Poems Exploring Incarceration, No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom and The Altar of Innocence. Her memoir, Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Receovery, will be published in late 2022. She serves as a contributing editor for Little Patuxent Review, and co-facilitates the Wilde Readings Poetry Series. Her poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, and Ann’s poetry has garnered two Pushcart Prize nominations. She’s been featured in Best American Poetry and interviewed by Grace Cavalieri on The Poet and the Poem. Ann’s advocacy work promotes using the arts to foster paradigm change in the areas of emotional wellness, education, and prison abolition.