Anne Minard

Anne Minard is a freelance writer from Flagstaff, Arizona who is currently living in Alabama. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a master’s degree, also in biology, from Flagstaff’s Northern Arizona University. She’s written about science on the staffs of newspapers and most recently as a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in the Arizona Daily Sun, Arizona Daily Star, Arizona Highways, The New York Times, L.A. Times, High Country News, Science magazine and National Geographic News, among other outlets. Her first book, Pluto and Beyond, was published in 2007. Anne’s latest project is a collection of essays about her clumsy, eye-opening acclimation to Southern culture.