Annie Dawid lives and writes in 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 and shuttered it in 2012. She teaches creative writing online for the University College masters program in Creative Writing, University of Denver.
Annie’s newest book, PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN, won the 2022 Cinematic Book Award from Screencraft (no publication involved) and is published on the 45th anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre by Inkspot Publishing of the UK.
Annie Dawid’s book of linking stories, And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories Of A Family, won the 2007 Litchfield Award for Short Fiction and was published in 2008. Her second 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, assemblages and rugs have also appeared in various literary magazines as well as shows in Oregon and Colorado. She also designs and hooks rugs, which have been featured in Colorado galleries.
An interview with Annie was published in the London Independent Story Prize in 2018 https://www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/single-post/2018/08/21/Interview-with-Annie-Dawid-2nd-Place-Winner-LISP-3rd-Quarter-2018#!
In 2004, she was writer-in-residence at the University of North Dakota’s annual writer’s conference. In 2003, she taught master classes in the short story at the South Australia Writers Center in Adelaide. In 2005-2009, she visited campuses in Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Colorado.
Annie has taught workshops at the Taos (NM) Summer Writers Conference (2010, 2013) and Castle Rock (CO) Writers Conference (2013).