Anne-Marie Oomen

Instructor of Creative Writing, Writers Retreat, Interlochen College of Creative Arts

About Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie Oomen was awarded the Michigan Author Award (2024) for Lifetime Achievement. Her memoir As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book won AWP’s Sue William Silverman Nonfiction Award (University of Georgia Press), a Michigan Notable Book Award, and a Silver IPPY. She edited ELEMENTAL: A Collection of Michigan Nonfiction, and co-authored The Lake Michigan Mermaid and The Lake Huron Mermaid (with Linda Nemec Foster). Earlier books include Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields (Michigan Notables), American Map: Essays, Uncoded Woman (poetry), and Love, Sex and 4-H (Next Generation Indie Award for Memoir). The Long Fields: Essays of Comfort and Home (Cornerstone Press) is her most recent collection of new and selected essays. She teaches at Interlochen College of Creative Arts and at conferences throughout the country.

www.anne-marieoomen.com

(photo credit Kathleen Quigley)