Annie Dawid lives and writes in the Sangre de Cristo range of South-Central Colorado.An English professor and director of creative writing for 15 years at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, Annie left full-time teaching for full-time writing.She founded BloomsburyWest, a retreat for writers and artists, in 2006.

Annie Dawid's new book of linking stories, And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories Of A Family, won the 2007 Litchfield Award for Short Fiction and will be published by the end of 2008. Her last book, Lily in the Desert: Stories, was published in 2001 by the Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Her first book, York Ferry, a novel, is now in a second printing from Cane Hill Press of NYC. Both books can be bought in any bookstore, on-line or in the flesh. You can also buy copies of York Ferry directly from the writer. Her photographs have also appeared in various literary magazines as well as shows in Oregon and Colorado. Read more of her bio...

	Sunset from BloomsburyWest

Writers Retreat: BloomsburyWest

A house of one’s own on a quiet street in the mountain hamlet of Silver Cliff, Colorado, elevation 7,980 feet, far from the madding crowds.

A place to read, write, think, make art, study, contemplate the nature of the object of your contemplation. One-bedroom, former miner’s cabin, all conveniences, “self-catering,” as the British say, though within one block is the best pizza place in a sixty-mile circumferance and a homey small hotel restaurant. Supermarket, health food store, gym and indoor pool, plus two gas stations within one mile.

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Annie Dawid's photo by David Diaz Guerrero