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Anne-Marie Oomen

Anne-Marie Oomen is author of Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields (both Michigan Notable Books), and Un-coded Woman (Milkweed Editions); two chapbooks of poetry, Seasons of the Sleeping Bear and Moniker (with Ray Nargis), and is a featured poet in New Poems of the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry. An American Map, a new collection of essays on place and travel, published in 2010 with the Wayne State University Press, includes her essay in Solstice, "An Elongated Tear: Culebra." She has written many plays, including award-winning Northern Belles and serves as instructor of Creative Writing at Interlochen Arts Academy and at the Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College. She and her husband, David Early, have built their own home in Empire, Michigan.