Local Color

Anne Born is an award-winning, New York-based writer who has been writing stories and poetry since childhood. She blogs on The Backpack Press and Tumbleweed Pilgrim and her writing focuses on family and life in a big city after growing up in a small one. She is the author of "A Marshmallow on the Bus," "Prayer Beads on the Train," "Waiting on a Platform," "Turnstiles," and "Local Color," and "Buen Camino! Tips from an American Pilgrim." (The Backpack Press, December, 2017, now updated for 2020). Her short essay on the call to the Camino is included in "It's About Time," by Johnnie Walker (Redemptorist Pastoral Publications, 2019).

Her newest book, "If You Stand Here" will be out on Kindle shortly! It is a tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela for pilgrims. It focuses not on the dimensions of the building or all the various architectural programs, but on the people who have visited the Cathedral over the past 12 centuries.

She a contributor to the 2015 anthology, "Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox," edited by Joanne Bamberger. Anne's essay on her cousin's collection of Nancy Drew novels was published in the Silver Birch Press "Nancy Drew Anthology" (2016). She is also curator of the Late Orphan Project and a former contributor to The Broad Side.

Anne is also a photographer, specializing in photos of churches, cemeteries, and the Way of St. James in Spain, the Camino de Santiago.

Anne's work has been published in the Newtown Literary Journal and in "Me, as a Child," "All About My Name," and "My Prized Possession," Poetry & Prose Series published by Silver Birch Press. Her poetry has been featured in New York at Boundless Tales, Word Up Community Bookstore, and the Queens Council on the Arts. She has been a featured performer in several venues with Inspired Word NYC, at the New York Transit Museum, on Queens Public TV in "The World of Arts," and with the International Women Artists' Salon on Salon Radio.

Anne divides her time between New York and Spain. Follow Anne Born and The Late Orphan Project at The Backpack Press, and on Twitter, Redbubble, and Instagram @nilesite.

September 2016 - These Winter Months: The Late Orphan Project Anthology, edited by Anne Born, The Backpack Press. Winner (Anthologies), The Great Midwest Book Festival 2016.

April 2017 - These Summer Months: Stories from The Late Orphan Project, edited by Anne Born, The Backpack Press. Finalist (Anthologies: Non-Fiction), International Book Awards 2017.